they haven t even sign signed a contract with the manufacturers but we ll have until 30 days. if all it takes is 30 days why hasn t joe done this sooner when we really needed them? this is b.s. they haven t signed a contract. that was reported today. the website is not yet functional because they haven t signed a contract. how could it be et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. so 500 million doesn t seem like it s going to get here anytime soon, and perhaps when we do have them the omicron wave would have passed. i found it interesting tonight because we had dr. mena who was one of the participants of that october 22nd white house online meeting when they talked about 700 plus million being necessary, but they didn t order them at that time either. so sounds like there s enough blame to go around. let s hope they get it sorted
i don t think we re getting them. that s pretty clear. they haven t signed a contract. that was reported today. the website is not yet functional because they haven t signed a contract. how could it be et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. so 500 million doesn t seem like it s going to get here anytime soon, and perhaps when we do have them the omicron wave would have passed. i hope they re able to turn it around. i hope they re able to generate it quickly. i found it interesting tonight because we had dr. mena who was one of the participants of that october 22nd white house online meeting when they talked about 700 plus million being necessary, but they didn t order them at that time either. so sounds like there s enough blame to go around. let s hope they get it sorted out jiffy quick. what else came in tonight? smerconish, people are giving 45 credit for his pivot on vaccines. i see it as damage control. he s trying to cleanup his position on things because he is seriously considering a
it s too little, too late. the debacle that is testing should have been resolved in 2020, not 2022. the source of the problem isn t a lack of tests, it s a bureaucratic bottleneck at the fda, a problem the president should be able to solve. admiral giroir just addressed that issue. i don t know if the rest of you were aware of this, i learned it from reading that piece and i assume it to be true, that tests are much more plentiful in europe, up to 200 where we have 13, 15 that have been approved. they sell for a buck 50 and they re all over the place. i also heard dr. mina say while things have gotten better, there was indeed a meeting on october 22nd and a proposal that was made for 700 plus million tests and it wasn t acted on, for whatever reason. we ll continue to follow this story. something unusual has been happening this week. that is that donald trump joined the war on disinformation, meaning he s on the side of truth, at least when it comes to vaccine conspiracies. so what i
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.
welcome to cnn tonight. with omicron spreading far and wide and not nearly enough testing to meet the massive demand, a new report from vanity fair suggests the biden administration missed an opportunity to ramp up testing before 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, endless lines, hours waiting so people 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 goss 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