administration dismissed a bold plan months ago to ramp up testing ahead of the holidays. characterized by the magazine a blueprint for how to avoid what is happening at this moment, a scramble nationwide to get a covid test nearly two years into this pandemic, endless lines, hours of people waiting so they can celebrate safely with others. but is that what really happened? the white house says they didn't dismiss anything. we're about to talk to a doctor who attended the white house meeting where that very proposal was made on october 22nd. "vanity fair" says it got hold of the ten-page plan that included a testing surge to prevent holiday covid surge. the idea was to push the administration to get out rapid home covid testing to americans so that they could screen themselves and reduce transmission before the holidays. the proposal purportedly called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity.