months ago, a month ago. reporter: but many public-health experts have been sounding the alarm for months. everybody saw it coming. we knewby needed more tests. i think the administration dropped the ball on this. we are still way behind on testing. frankly, i think a big problem is, right from the start, we didn t have a strategic plan about how testing was going to fit in with our response. reporter: and in october, anticipating a winter surge, a group of experts including dr. michael mena made an urgent plea to white house officials. tried everything i could to advise our government on the need for these tools. reporter: in a presentation obtained by cnn, the experts predicted the u.s. would need about 732 million rapid at home tests per month by march 2022. even after factoring in expected production increases, the experts warned the u.s. would fall short by about a quarter of a billion tests. white house officials say they didn t disagree with the goals but by octobe
a good understanding of how much omicron is in the u.s.? i don t think so. i mean, you know, that s been one of the real shortcomings. leave aside the beginning of this pandemic where there were problems with the initial test rollouts in the cdc. that happened. that was a long time ago. why we haven t been able to catch up and be able to, as people like michael mena have been suggesting, to have people test every day in their home. to do an antigen test. if you are testing frequent i there, you improve the accuracy of these tests to get an idea who is contagious and who is not. that is part of controlling a pandemic. and even being able to report those results. people can do at-home tests. i have at-home tests. they are they are sometimes hard to get. they are intermittently in short supply if you can get them. but then not reporting. so hopefully people are taking the tests and then doing the right thing.
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