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President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. Here's what we know about the rollout so far.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. Here's what we know about the rollout so far.

President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. Here's what we know about the rollout so far.

As holidays approach, testing kits seem harder to find in the Upstate

Relief package earlier this year. where did that money go? why didnt the federal government stockpiled testing kits? why didnt they compare search capacities for hospitals and clinics for the inevitable variant that was going to create what on the has led to? this is a failure at all levels of government to be prepared at a time when they had the money. there is no excuse for them not to have taken the steps and we are in the spot we are now because everybody dropped the ball, federal, state, an...

We need good cops. the majority of cops are good. what kind of lawless society would we live in if we cannot procure or keep good cops? we are heading down that road, julie. we are heading on that road and that scares me. >> we are down that road for sure. thank you so much. >> i want to say merry christmas, thanks for having me today. >> merry christmas to you too. >> wiser than you guys have brought in 500 million tests next month if you havent even signed a contract to buy the test? >> we hav...

Hopeful Vermonters braved single-digit wind chills and snaking lines to get ahold of take-home testing kits ahead of Christmas.

Christmas. when they are putting all the new mask mandates in place. you cant get a covid test. when joe biden admits that hey, whoops, i kind of forgot to place the order for testing kits. who would have thought we would need more testing? thats hardly comforting. >> alicia: we actually have that piece of the interview he did with abc news on the covid testing. take a listen. >> were nearly two years into the pandemic, a year into the presidency. no test kits in some places three days before ch...

Do that if theyre not symptomatic and waiting days for their test results, theyre going on about the world, and spreading it to large amount of people. this is a huge issue with our testing right now. >> peter, why? >> part of the problem is, you know, the white house has been too often in reaction mode, not being proactive, and so for instance, when we knew this pfizer pill had a lot of promise, why didnt we bring in the defense production act and start scaling it up right then so we would have...

Administration promises to send out 500 million at-home testing kits, its not soon enough, with walmart and amazon limiting the amount people can buy. there were long lines today outside libraries in the nations capital for takehome tests. washington, d.c., is also implementing proof of vaccination requirements for indoor venues, like restaurants and bars. california is mandating boosters for all healthcare workers. this as the omicron variant continues to rise expoinencely. the dramatic increas...