as well. and more issues on the covid testing front, the popular rapid test is getting more expensive. walmart and kroger are raising prices on those test kits after an agreement with the white house to sell them at cost expired last month. health experts say these tests need to be inexpensive to encourage people to actually use them regularly. president biden says the new rule requirement private insurance companies to reimburse people for rapid tests will go into effect next week. officials say you will have to file a claim to be reimbursed, though. all right. i do not see january 6 happening the way he s being told. why was sean hannity texting mark meadows days before the insurrection? the january 6 committee wants to know. three times the electorlytes
basis spread by 50%, 500%, you would have said, biden, what are you drinking? trying to head off criticism on the covid testing front, president biden today announced the government will start mailing 500 million at-home test kits to american homes for free. joining me now for more on the administration s efforts against the omicron variant, the director of the centers for disease control and prevention, dr. rochelle walensky. i follow this closely. i m not an epidemiologist, but it s been my job for the last 19 months to follow this. we did know omicron was going to spread quickly. i think the pace surprised some people, but four or five weeks ago when we started looking at what the lab isolation of the nature of the mutation, the earliest data we were getting in south africa, it shouldn t really be a surprise to anyone that we have this massive outbreak right now, right? yeah, good evening, chris. good to be back with you. so let me just step back and sort of say where we are rig