During his Sunday morning appearance on ABC's "This Week," Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, spoke
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many are price gouging. reportedly selling at-home tests for $80 and up. the biden administration plans to make 500 million additional tests, some being sent out in the mail in the coming days. that s the plan anyway. and as the country reels from this surge in covid virus cases, governor desantis is confirming 119,000 covid tests held by the state expired without use. he s claiming the stockpile expired because there was simply no demand for the rapid test at this time, this despite spiking cases in florida that has led to hours-long lines at testing sites and extreme difficulty in finding at-home kits. it comes one day after they mocked nikki fried.
years into this and we re in a cul-de-sac on testing and masks. i feel the same way. we know that abbott threw away millions of tests over the summer because they thought the pandemic was coming to an end and there wasn t enough testing demand for the tests. right now two years in we re clear that there are surges. one, we re clear that coronavirus is here to stay. it s not endemic yet because right now virus cases are increasing exponentially. we re still very much in a pandemic, but i think that we as american public we need to really push our elected officials to get it right this time and that happens at a local, state and federal level. i think i need to see more urgency from this administration that, yes, it s great that we re getting these rapid tests but we don t need them in a few weeks. we need them right now. yeah. common sense advice you just gave. better mask, more tests faster