consumers at drugstores and limiting their number of sales. that's what the country is doing. they're subsidizing. >> joining us now cheryl stolberg who has more reporting on those much needed home tests. >> i guess it was last week and the "times" ran a story about how abbott shuts down one of his factoies and put an order out to destroy all of his test kits. i thought it was so indicative of how we have been thinking short term. we should have been planning for this all along and just didn't do it. >> the united states kind of funneled testing from the beginning. you probably remember the cdc botched its test kits early on and april or so of 2020, we had