The nation's top infectious disease expert admitted he was frustrated with the limited supply of tests amid the surge caused by the Omicron variant.
when asked if there was a"failure" when it came to testing. Biden recently announced that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them for free, but the first batch won't be shipped until early January 2022.
"Testing was a colossal failure in the early days and why is it that now nearly two years in, we still don't have affordable tests widely available to anybody who needs it?" Karl asked Fauci."I mean, this must frustrate you, I imagine, as well?"But he added:"I mean, if you look at the beginning of the administration, the beginning of the year, there were essentially no rapid point of care home tests available. Now there are over nine of them and more coming.
The production of home tests has been"rapidly upscaled," Fauci said, but Omicron"is stirring people to get appropriately concerned and wanting to get tested, as well as the fact of the run-on tests during the holiday season." He added:"We've obviously got to do better. I mean, I think things will improve greatly as we get into January, but that doesn't help us today and tomorrow. So you're right. That is something that is of concern."
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