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
very excited. they were so pumped up and when he first came in, everybody got glimpse of him coming around the corner the place erupted and they all get it, too. every aspect of everything he talked about, there was just everybody was excite and as he walked out of there, everybody was so excited about having the president come to their facility and to see they could do there. insourcing, scott, that is the new term. we have a long way to we have lost 50,000 factoies over the last ten years, 25 employees or more. that is a huge number. of course chinese representatives were in town earlier this week meeting with the president, this is a big week for manufacturing. it really is, a pivotal week, we haven t seen attention showered on manufacturing like this for a very long time but we have to make it real and there are things that we can do to