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Months ago, a month ago. >> reporter: but many public-health experts have been sounding the alarm for months. >> everybody saw it coming. we knewby needed more tests. i think the administration dropped the ball on this. >> we are still way behind on testing. >> frankly, i think a big problem is, right from the start, we didnt have a strategic plan about how testing was going to fit in with our response. >> reporter: and in october, anticipating a winter surge, a group of experts including dr. mi...

Today the u.s. should not expect a national peak in the omicron variant in the coming days and that the next few days will be tough telling our jake tapper the biden administration needs to focus on testing. >> as the president said, we certainly have more to do on testing and thats a message thats clear from the public and to his team that we need to pull every lever possible. thats why youve seen so many additional spigots open, if you will, when it comes to testing and why that supply will co...

Over 90,000 sites. we have added sites, added hours, added appointments, added walk-in capacity. we have booster shots for every american in the country. its easier than ever to get a booster shot and more important than its ever been. the fda has also now authorized booster shots for children ages 12 to 15, so with the final approval from the center for disease control and prevention, the cdc, young people when that occurs, young people ages 12 to 15 will be able to get booster shots later this...

You know, they have what they need because of the american rescue plan the first month we were in office, the second month that i signed in march, we provided the states with 130 billion with a b, billion dollars to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. funding for ventilation, ventilation systems in the schools, social distancing classrooms, even larger classrooms on buses and everything from bus drivers to buses, the actual bus. in all this process, we also included an addition...

So seems like they want to stay the course. if they fire anybody, that finally acknowledges that things are going wrong for this administration. i wrote about the disaster rouse 48 hours. think about the last six months for this president. afghanistan, build back better fails at the hands of his own party and messaging that it will cost zero dollars and reduce the deficit. no. covid explodes. the administration flat-footed on testing. peter doocy said the tests still havent been sent out. now th...

Six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. >> reporter: but many public health experts have been sounding the alarm for months. >> everybody saw it coming. we knew we needed more tests. i think the administration dropped the ball on this. >> were still way behind on testing. >> frankly, a big problem is right from the start we didnt have a strategic plan about how testing was going to fit in with our response. >> reporter: and in october, anticipating a winter surge, a group of experts, includ...

Rather, they believe in dick at that tore -- dictatorial conduct, and theyre not going to get passed the congress or signed into la you. jacqui: this has been a pretty tough week for the biden administration, theres been a record setting surge of cases. a muddled on testing, former members of bidens health team adopting a strategy of living can with covid and then the president admitting covid is here to stay in one form other another. how much do you see this impacting the success and how much ...

Embarks on his second year in office. >> reporter: president bidens week going from bad to worse. >> theres a lot of talk about disappointments and things we havent gotten done. were going to get a lot of them done, i might add. but this is something we did get done. >> reporter: biden highlighting his infrastructure bill after being forced to confront one setback after another, putting his presidency in a perilous position as he approaches one year in office. >> the truth is an agenda doesnt wr...

Weeks, just monday alone we had over a million new cases and its largely omicron and we talked a little bit about the hospitalizations but we are also seeing breakthrough infections for those who have some immunity, either theyve been vaccinated, theyve had covid before and so how do we treat that and just about everybody you know either has omicron or they have friends or family that have it. thats how fast it has transmitted, so now we have to get in there and treat it as quickly as possible a...

That settled over everybody. >> as omicron swept across the country, the nfl said it saw average cases jump from below 30 a week to more than 300. now, there is one place dr. sills said covid transmission remains very unlikely, and that is here on the field. before omicron, omicron did not document a single case of covid crossing the line of scrimmage. omicron no doubt has blurred that picture, but one thing has remained true. having good ventilation, being outside, is going to be a much safer e...