The big news announced on Tuesday was that the administration would buy and distribute half a billion at-home tests to anyone who asks because, he said, testing is key to getting COVID under control.
At his press briefing Tuesday, a reporter asked Biden if the lack of sufficient tests was a failure.
The shortage of COVID tests has been a problem for several months.
What happens while manufacturers are producing those half a billion tests for the federal government? Won't that just create still more shortages of tests in the private market? If you think Biden has anticipated this potential problem, you haven't been paying attention to his gross incompetence.
Biden has done little, in anything, to fix the regulatory machinery that is clearly slowing down production of COVID tests.
"The U.S. produced covid-19 vaccines in record time nearly two years into the pandemic, consumers have few options for cheap tests that quickly screen for infection, though they are widely available in Europe. Some experts say the FDA's approach to clearing rapid tests has been onerous and overly focused on exceptional accuracy to detect positive results, rather than on what would really benefit people en masse: speedy results."
An what did Biden say on Tuesday about knocking down regulatory barriers standing in the way of getting more tests to people?
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/21/biden-lied-about-why-covid-tests-are-in-short-supply/
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