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