click, call, or visit a store to learn more. mister president, what is your message to americans that are trying to get tested now? and not able to get tested, and wondering what took so long to ramp up testing? come on, what took so. long i am hearing that is the people who are trying to get tested before the holidays. well with took so long is that it didn t take long at all. would have been to us, the omicron virus spread in more rapidly than what anyone thought. i told you, four weeks ago, that this would spread by a day-to-day basis. it would spread by 5000 percent, 200%.
they re able to request a test, but they re not going to be this sort of mass mailing out of tests which is what she was scoffing out when she mocked the idea. teed me up there. we wanted to play that exchange so we re going to right now then i m going to ask the doctor on the other side what he thinks of this answer. let s here the question to joe biden and what he said in reply. mr. president, what s your message to americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing? come on, what took so long. i m hearing that from people trying to get tested now before the holidays. well, what took so long is it didn t take long at all. what happened was the omicron virus spread in more rapidly than anybody thought. if i had told you four weeks ago that this would spread by a day-to-day basis, spread by 50, 100%, 200%, 500%, i think you