the new guidelines shortening isolation are coming as covid returns to crisis levels in the united states. up ending holiday travel for millions of americans, the national seven-day average climbed to almost 200,000 cases. now, this is the highest average since almost a year ago. which is why we are again facing a crisis in testing. look at those long lines on your screen. this is a haunting visual of what evaded us. that s the access to accurate reliable and high quality tests. today president joe biden directly address that shortage and what may change in the month ahead. but it not enough. it s clearly not enough if we d known we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have. we ll continue to use the defense production act to produce as many tests as possible. and unfortunately, the lack of testing is one layer of a complicated problem.