i want to bring in now andy slavitt. he s a former biden white house senior adviser for covid response. he s also the author of preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response. andy, good to see you in person. good to be here, don. thank you for joining us. president biden is laying out his plan to fight the winter wave of covid. he s focusing on vaccines and tes tes testing. we ve been in this pandemic for 21 months. hard to believe. i was asking on the break, how long were we in our homes? it s kind of the lost month. is that going to make a difference? the difference today, don is we have a large array of tools. what the president announced today, that we are going to have at-home tests available for free for americans. 50 million at community health centers and then insurance companies are going to be required to pay for those
shot for kids ages 5 to 11. the biden administration plans to start rolling out the doses as soon as it is granted emergency use authorization by the fda and cdc. 130,000 lives lost to coronavirus could have been saved had former president trump listened to the science instead of worried about the election. that is the message from dr. deborah birx, saying i believe the reduction in indoor deaning, getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and increase tes testing, we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30% less to 40% less range. nurse and covid survivor liza billings lost her brother to covid-19. i m so sorry. i know that probably feels like
administration support companies that require vaccinations going forward? well president biden has been clear on this saying he supports what companies do and we came up with a policy, the president came up with a policy in the federal government where we re encouraging people to get v vaccinated and we ll be doing tes testing on those folks who don t. and we ll make sure to keep people safe and alive is what we re going to do in this administration. there is another approach. among them new york. issuing a vaccine passport, giving you access to further public events, et cetera, if you show proof of vaccination. this is a political football, acting boston mayor who followed you as mayor of boston, she s been critical of vaccine passports. where do the administration stand on issuing passports like that. the administration supports local authorities and what they want to do as far as trying to
corporate structure. daley has more the big picture ceo and roush the more daily chief operating officer. if they can stabilize the economy, all of this will be trivia. but it is a big if. stand by. the u.n. nuclear agency says it suspects iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. the latest report as we ve been reporting on. now in detail. it outlines the evidence. including high explosive tes testing, modeling of a warhead. preparatory work. developing and mounting a nuclear payload on to the intermediate range missiles. are they buying into it? the white house is exciting because some of the previous