The United States is being hard hit with the Omicron variant, at a time hospitals were already struggling with patients from the Delta variant.

The country is reporting an average of 168,000 cases a day.

As Jackson Proskow reports, the surge in cases is fueling demand for rapid tests and some treatments.

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