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Their frustrations. but the president said yesterday in those remarks to the national governors association was to affirm the federal government is there to help states and localities which are on the front lines of administering the testing programs, the vaccination programs, said if you need something, say something. but he also acknowledged that the efforts of the federal government so far, especially on the front of testing, as we have seen huge demand for testing during the holiday season, ...

>> i know there are questions about staff and i know there are questions about testing and there is a lot of questions. but were going to turn those question marks into a exclamation point, were staying open. were going to make sure our children are in safe spaces. >> and so the commitment is there to keep the schools open. so there is a plan in place which you just heard. on the the testing front, 1.5 million tests were delivered to every single school across the city over the weekend, in the l...

Originally we hear from the cdc director on the "today" show this morning, she confirmed that this morning saying its not as effective picking up omicron as it was the delta or alpha variant but saying that the pcr test should be the reliable test for folks to take. thats why were here at the site where youre seeing lines -- not yet but seeing lines across the city as that testing front continues, not just here in illinois but across the country. >> doctor, lines, lines everywhere but theres als...

Put those covid tests into the mix so they can speed up the production and get that half-billion amount of tests into the bloodstream of america. what happens if and when that doesnt happen? you talk about inflation like its a small thing. well, its not, but youre right, its not as bad as what we are facing right now with the testing shortage. >> inflation is not a small thing. you are seeing the white house really focusing on some of the root issues with regards to inflation. we are seeing gas ...

People who have been vaccinated can donate blood as long as they have no symptoms when donating. now, on the testing front, a major development here. health insurers are going to have to pay for your at-home covid test starting saturday. people with private insurance can buy these tests online or at stores and then get reimbursed by submitting a claim with no copays or deductibles. the biden administration struck this deal with insurers to cover up to eight tests per person each month. still, ...

Cnn, new york. >> a national consultant for covid-19 testing and president and ceo of premier medical group usa in hawaii. thank you so much for being here in what has been an incredibly confusing 24-hour period on the testing front. definitely the crisis in testing is acute in the united states and elsewhere. dr. walensky from the head of the cdc defended the fact that in shortening the isolation in the quarantine, that they are not asking people to test out because in her words rapid tests are...

Enough testing. were going to put the full force of the federal government behind expanding testing by launching a covid-19 pandemic testing board. we continue to work on making at-home testing available. from the start, america has failed to do enough covid-19 testing. seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend, shows we have more work to do. >> well, president and his administration have plans to ramp up testing. cnns jeremy diamond has the details. >> reporter: with...

Thats going to work. there is a web site thats going to launch in january. that is not up yet, and we dont know whos going to be eligible for the tests, how many each household can get. whether they let seniors get the test before other people, a lot of questions on the testing front, and you have people waiting days to get test results back, and unable to find any of these home tests, so a lot of obstacles, struggles ahead for this administration, but as you noted, some tools finally in the too...

Of the essence. how are they going to pull this off? >> right, steph. a lot of potentially good news or good signs on the horizon but still a lot of challenges ahead. you mentioned these pills from pfizer. the administration has spent $10 billion on new drugs and treatments. they hope to have 10 million courses of treatment by late summer of just this pfizer pill, which appears to be a game changer, but to get to that point, the administration is going to need to help pfizer speed up manufacturi...