dollars so that they could stay open, be prepared, open safely, all of that. no many of them are saying we ll have to go virtual again. so the president criticized specifically some of the states and he s asking where did the money go? we also back then included an $10 billion for testing for schools. that money went out to the states. states and the school districts have spent the money well. many of them. unfortunately some haven t. martha: unfortunately some haven t. there s the podium. we re waiting for jen psaki that will probably get questions about this in terms of the accountability. where does the money go? if the money is supposed to be for testing and safe open schools, we don t we have that in some cases? we ll dig into that. that money was allocated for those specific things. why are we still seeing challenges? $72.8 billion allocated to testing and detecting the virus in an ample fashion over the course of 2020 and 2021. edward lawrence digging into this. he
house for letting therapeutics fall by the wayside for this near exclusive focus on vaccinations that we ve seen. they ve also accelerated the timeline when they ll be delivered from september to june. we were looking at an order of ten million initially. the white house announced that they will get the full ten million by june. by the end of january, they ll have four million covid treatments on hand. a lot of the same sort of vibe that we got from the president when he gave his remarks today ahead of the briefing warning folks that are unvaccinated that they re at risk with this highly transmissable omicron variant telling people that are vaccinated to get boosted. also speaking about the numbers as we ve seen this really record-breaking number today, one million cases in the u.s. here s what the president said earlier. if you re vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid but you re highly protected against severe illness. schools can and should be open this winter. we hav
It right because i fought against doing it wrong thatter is rick adams, the new mayor of new york city. that is the story for this tuesday, january 4, 2022. the story goes on. see you tomorrow at 3:00. hope you have a greatening. your world starts right now. take care, everybody. see you tomorrow. president biden meeting with his covid response team. once again, urging americans to get vaccinated and boosted. the president also announcing that he s doubling an order for pfizer s new covid pill. the first doses should be available by the end of the month. welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest. the announcement from the white house that they re doubling their order of the pfizer anti-viral pill is welcome news to a lot of folks that are criticizing the white