Dr. Anthony Fauci is encouraging people to continue to use at-home COVID-19 antigen tests after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the tests may be less sensitive at detecting the omicron variant.

The director of the CDC is warning this fall and winter will be one of the most difficult times we've ever experienced in American public health and the worst is on the horizon. "I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be one of the most difficult times that we've experienced in American public health. Keeping the health care system from being over-stretched is really important," CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said. Nearly a quarter of the Sunshine States cases are in Miami-Dade County, now considered by one expert to be the epicenter of the pandemic. The CDC director disagrees, instead pointing to travel to southern states during the Memorial Day week.