to get vaccinated as opposed to passing blame. secondly, it is really to expand testing. we have to realize that testing is one of the most critical public health tools that we have. regular, repetitive, once or twice a week testing, people that are at high risk for infection. i particularly think in our schools k-12 we should be testing kids once or twice a week and removing the infected person, an approach that is our strategy of identifying knowledge of infection rather than these generic strategies. let s just assume everybody s infected, let s assume everybody has to do this. no, let s go down and use the tools we have and diagnose. gillian: sorry to interrupt you. i want to pick up on a point that it was a moment ago. he said you think the omicron variant is going to require a fourth shot of boosters further down the road. talk to us about that. that seems like news to me. gillian, if you take blood from a vaccinated individual like myself i do ask that blood
there in january when the information is available, and they will be able to request three tests. that is something that is a reflection of the president s commitment to continue re-examining and improving our covid response, including as it relates to testing. go ahead. reporter: another on testing, because why not? there s more to ask here and i don t think we ve had answers yet. is there any sense of whether you will be able to guarantee that, from the moment ordered online, how long one will have to wait to receive them? are you going to be relying on fedex, ups, amazon, the postal service to help distribute these? secretary psaki: again, really good questions, and be of course want people to be able to rapidly receive the tests. people have certainty to know they can get a test, that they can feel safe going to their workplace, seeing their family members, sending their kids to school. that is the objective. the details of how it will be distributed in the mechanisms will be c
about sending tests to people s homes, he said, should we just send them to every american? as you have reflected on the change in omicron here, have you reflected on your tone and that answer? secretary psaki: well, jeff, i will say there s not a day that goes by that i don t leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision, or additional information. that day there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing i conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests that we were making available, but the 20,000 free testing sites. should i have included that additional context again and that answer? yes. going back, i wish i would have done that. to be clear, so people have accurate information about how it works out there which i know is your objective as well as mine we are making tests free and accessible without the rest of them going to waste in the homes of people who do n
gillian: fox news alert, president biden will address the nation in moments. he s planning to lay out his new agenda to fight the winter covid surge. we expect the president to make a major announcement as well about testing. we are going to take to their lives as soon as the president starts. mike: the new york times taking heat for changing a headline not once but twice on a calm that portrays randi weingarten a champion of school openings. the original headlines, can this woman save american public education cannot then it will become, what will it take to get schools back to normal? was finally settling on, we desperately need schools to get back to normal. but they basically ran a defense for a person who repeatedly moved to the goalposts those who fault weingarten for close schools misunderstand the roles she s played over the last 20
the 500 million test kits that will begin be available in january is significant, the largest purchase we have sent to date, building on what we have done to date, in an effort to make testing more free, accessible, to people across the country. to go ahead. reporter: drill down on the specs of this, if you will. when can americans expect to see these tests? where they coming from, how many can a family or person order it once? is this website going to be able to sustain all these people who want to get on and get these tests? secretary psaki: to answer your last question, yes, that is our expectation and we are preparing for that. we will have more information as it is available, including with the website looks like. we will make the website available as soon as these tests are available. they will start to be available in january. in terms of the numbers that different families can order, we