like leyla showed us and dr. anthony fauci talked to our colleague earlier this morning. he did not mince words. it shouldn't be like this. >> we had a conflation of high demands because of the omicron which is justifiable. the hightriggered by the hot holiday season. hopefully that will get better. >> reporter: poppy this testing shortage is happening against the back drop. let's look at the dramatic rise in cases in just the past month. if you look at the left, that was 75,000 cases a day. now more than 200,000 cases a day. hospitalizations are not rising as dramatically. you see from that line. poppy, here is the number that