A top Food and Drug Administration official pledged Friday not to delay the rollout of coronavirus vaccines for the youngest children and said at least one of the two shots under review could become available by June.
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meaning it took only 21 days for omicron to spread nationwide. hospitals are inundated with unvaccinated covid patients and hospitals are depleted after two years on the covid front line in a desperate plea asking americans to please get vaccinated. six cleveland area health care facilities paid for a one-page ad that features one word on a blank page. help. the message below says we now have more covid patients in our hospitals than ever before. the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. dr. gupta and a critical care pulmonologist joins us and dr. brooke watts, chief officer for community health in cleveland. thank you both for being here. i ll start with you, dr. watts. that ad said help and described the situation you re facing. describe for us what is going on in your hospitals.
homes and schools. we should limit who has access to the tests. if you re on a medicare plan if you re disadvantaged, we should have strategy around here as we ramp up access to testing. i think we need to be strategic right now because we don t have enough tests. dr. gupta good point. it should be free. yeah. give us your final message because we re heading into a holiday we re heading into a holiday. what should vaccinated people be doing, dr. watts? what would you like us to do differently? is there something we can be doing differently? first and foremost, we need our community leaders to step up. we know there are high ris settings. if you re a community leader holding events where you have unvaccinated folks getting together, you have kids, you have high risk, now is the time. you are the leader. you need to cancel your event and you know who you are.
appointments are tough to get, and over the counter rapid tests are selling out online and at pharmacies. dr. brooke watts works with metro health in ohio. there isn t a rapid test to be found and the pcr tests that are offered at testing sites, the wait period is approximately seven days. reporter: dr. michael mina has been sounding the alarm on testing trouble since early in the pandemic gli. i think our testing failure is the greatest failure of this pandemic. reporter: in recent months, the biden administration has pledged to spend close to $3 billion to ramp up testing. they also used the defense production act several times to make millions more tests available. last week, the white house coronavirus response coordinator said they had enough supply. there is plenty of free testing across the country. reporter: days later, covid is surging and the testing supply hasn t kept up. we really need to flood the system with testing. we need to have tests available for anyon