Officials Say Testing Supply Shortage Will Likely Continue Amid Omicron Surge
The COVID-19 testing supply shortage will more than likely continue throughout the Omicron surge, which is expected to peak locally in one or two weeks,...
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The COVID-19 testing supply shortage will more than likely continue throughout the Omicron surge, which is expected to peak locally in one or two weeks,...
Shut down the virus. he didn't t even have a plan to secure enough covid-19 testing supplies. don't take my word. even the medical experts at cnn are very disappointed. watch this. >> how critical is the window we are missing right now for testing? >> incredibly critical. i can't believe this is where we are 2 years into the pandemic. everybody saw it coming. we knew we needed more tests. c the administration dropped the this.n >> pete: how do you drop the ball? they knew a variant was coming. they knew they needed more tests. they decided not to? you can play the imagine if it was donald trum...
Joe biden never had a plan to shut down the virus. he didn't even have a plan to secure enough covid-19 testing supplies. don't take my word. even the medical experts at cnn are very disappointed. watch this. >> how critical is the window we are missing right now for testing? >> incredibly critical. i can't believe this is where we are 2 years into the pandemic. everybody saw it coming. we knew we needed more tests. the administration dropped the ball on this. >> pete: how do you drop the ball? they knew a variant was coming. they knew they needed more tests. they decided not to? you can play ...
The department of health to try to get more testing supplies here in miami-dade county. john? >> 150,000 tests and already out. the demand is there, we got to increase the supply. leyla, thank you very much. on top of that, there is new government data on the pandemic that will be of concern to parents. the cdc and health and human services departments say the number of children in the hospital with covid-19 is getting close to a peak that was reached in early september. new york city is reporting a fivefold increase in pediatric hospitalizations and for more on that let's get to cnn's senio...
Christmas eve and that's with testing shortages. and none of the data includes results from those at-home covid tests. the nation overall is averaging 200,000 new cases each day right now. also concerns are growing around the risks for children. there's still a lot we don't know about the severity of omicron and people without immunity like kids who haven't been vaccinated. what we do know is the number of child hospitalizations for covid have quadrupled in new york city in recent weeks. nbc's mike memoli is traveling with the president in delaware. also with us is an epidemiologist from field...