robert redfield moments away is what you need to know. and issues over testing. gillian: first we go direct to the white house where jacqui heinrich is standing by. hi, jacqui. hey there, gillian. we re waiting for the briefing and public health officials are watching omicron case is double every 2-3 days. they now make up nearly three quarters of cases in the u.s. the president is adding new steps to his mentor covid plan including a thousand military medical personnel deploying to overwhelmed hospitals in january february. fema is also sending teams to six states right now. critical supplies like masks and ventilators are being prepositioned across the country and federal testing sites are coming back to cities like new york where people are waiting in long lines for hours to get tested. for the first time, the white house is sending free rapid tests to anyone who wants one at home. the only problem is they won t get here until january, and that s not in time for holiday gatherin
you ve got to try a little kindness yes, show a little kindness just shine your light for everyone to see and if you try a little kindness mike: we are standing by for president biden s new plan to fight the surge of the omicron variant. the white house saying his speech will be about lockdowns but rather a plan to increase testing, support overwhelmed hospitals, and boost vaccinations. but nearly two years into this pandemic, why are tests still hard to get? let s bring in fox news contributor and family and emergency medicine doctor, janette nesheiwat. dr. janette, welcome. hey, mike. how are you? mike: looking at the
minority. but is also possible that some of these people are leaving because they feel they are being forced to vote on the far-let s plan that doesn t represent their districts? that is certainly the likely case. he mentioned the elevated number of retirements. it s a little weird for politicians, being a chair of the committee is kind of fun. you get a lot of power, why did they want to leave? to your point, i think really disturbing for democrats is the announcement of a retirement from someone like representative stephanie murphy. she is in a swing district in florida, she is a younger sort of rising star in the party. she says she wants to spend more time with her family and perhaps that is the case, but you look at that kind of retirement and it suggests that it has become very difficult for a swing district democrat to thrive in a party where the demand is for this kind of massive government
plan that comment really unrelated to the big issue facing the country, which is inflation. mike: back to senator manchin and the attacks coming from progressives. he seems to enjoy the fight to a certain degree, sticking to his guns. the new york post today cover, and absolute classic. they insulted and harassed me but i am not budging on bad bill. should the democrats be careful about pushing him too if argument we have seen party switches before, james. i think they just ran the experiment on whether you could bully him and get him to vote or agree to support this big plan that he views as a really disastrous, inflationary, creating unsustainable entitlements. i would hope that maybe the president who, in his previous political life, when he was working in the obama administration, was actually fairly adept at negotiating
in a timely manner. mike: let s play this clip from dr. anthony fauci today. we are going to hopefully quickly catch up with that curve, and having a plan with the defense reduction act of getting anywhere from 200 million ? 500 million tests per month, creating a website we can order it and have it delivered for your home. mike: are you asking why more tests and therapeutics have not been available to this point, doctor? absolutely. two years and, there s no reason for my patients to have to wait hours to get tested, and a long time to get results for pcr tests. the cdc, our governor, we need to have vaccine sites open now, we need to have more testing availability now, especially this far along in the pandemic. mailing out a home test where you get it into-3 weeks is unacceptable. we need it now, and it needs to be, again, free and easily accessible, as well as our