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and available by request by you and me. he s deploying 1,000 more members of the military to help at overburdened hospitals. biden is also adding some 20,000 testing locations nationwide, as well as, this is important, 10,000 new vaccine pop-up clinics staffed with help to speed up appointments. all this to slow two concerning trends. first, the skyrocketing number of covid infections up 16% in one week and, second, severe cases in hospitals. often, most often among the unvaccinated. up 35% in the last month. cnn s jeff zeleny starts us off at the white house with the president s message to americans. let me give it to you straight again. omicron is serious, potentially deadly business for unvaccinated people. reporter: president biden issuing a stark new warning. four days before christmas. as the administration braces for a staggering surge in covid
wear n95s and other protective equipment. so when somebody is asymptomatic and they ve quarantined for five days and come back to work and follow those guidelines strictly, i think it is encouraging to know that they can come back and help with the work that needs to be done here. we still have a covid unit. we have monoclonal infusions and we have a test strategy. so you re dealing with potentially sick or already sick patients and if these employees can help in those areas, then that decreases or mitigates the risk to the un to the people who don t have covid working with these patients. so you have a testing center. often times that s where folks get tested. the president announced a plan today to offer half a billion tests to people, anybody you, me, others, people watching can order these tests at home. do you think that helps for people to have the opportunity to test themselves at home? yes, i think that the president s idea to have more testing available is wonderful, and