Americans are waiting in lines for hours in cities across the country to get their COVID test. Above is one of those lines, seen in Times Square on Wednesday
* Americans are still waiting hours in lines to be tested for COVID-19 as the Omicron variant sweeps the nation
* The US broke a world record for daily average cases with 301,472
* Biden caught heat Wednesday after announcing that contracts won't be finished 'until next week' for the 500 million at-home tests he promised
* There are still unanswered questions about how the at-home test distribution will work and how long it will take for the tests to arrive once ordered
* Yesterday, the CDC made a shock revision of Omicron prevalence, cutting the number of cases involving the new strain by half
* Omicron accounted for 23% of all cases in the week ending December 18, as opposed to 73% initially reported
* The Omicron variant accounted for 59% of all new cases for the week ending on December 25, CDC says
* It means that Delta has been accounting for far more infections than the agency initially thought
The Biden administration is under pressure from Americans as many wait hours to be tested for COVID - while the US hit a new high for new daily average cases with 301,472 reported on Wednesday.
The country smashed its previously daily average record of 264,546 cases as the highly-infectious new Omicron variant continued to sweep the nation.
The sudden spike has prompted warnings from experts that the virus will 'threaten critical infrastructure' in the US with workers at hospitals, grocery stores and gas stations forced into isolation.
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