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Rules and regulations coming from the administration and going through governors and mayors, we cannot function as a society without those testing results. my family members, one family for example, they could only get two public of a test for their five people. that was a family of five with two testing positive. what happens to the other three? they stood in the snow for hours to get their task. that is one family of millions across the country and that is what we are talking about, that is wh...

Record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. >> no, i dont think covid is here to stay, but having covid in the environment and in the world is here to stay. covid as were dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesnt have to be -- we have so many more tools were developing and continue to develop that will contain covid and other strains of covid. >> reporter: earlier this week the u.s. recorded over one million new covid cases in a single day, neil, shatt...

>> todd: an old tweet criticizing shortage of covid tests coming back to haunt white house chief of staff ron klain as the testing shortage rocks the nation. in june 2020 he tweeted "testing still isnt fixed, testing still isnt fixed, testing still isnt fixed. we are richest country and testing still isnt fixed, testing still isnt fixed" and announced they will buy tests after the president admitted his testing plan isnt enough. ashley, im pretty sure ron klain wants that back. keep in might bee...

That money for a minimum of nine months and suddenly we have a testing shortage? one of the questions is, was that money spent for other things. if it was, how do you justify that if youre the administration and the department. >> martha: you know, this administration told the american people that they were going to solve covid. that the prior administration had done a terrible job. in this administration, things were going to be very different. so i think that members of congress and the americ...

The necessary protection. julie. >> julie: david lee miller at laguardia airport. thank you, david. >> benjamin: the white house is pumping the brakes on mass mailing half a billion covid tests and lines stretching for miles at testing sites across the country. lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest. >> good morning. the record setting surge in cases hitting during a testing shortage. the true numbers could be much higher. the president promising half a billion tests for free begi...

Leading health officials about a testing requirement for a smomic individuals to get back to their routines now they they shortened the isolation period to five days. how do you do that with the testing shortage? this is a critical question that the president will be facing when he meets with advisors later this afternoon. >> if you have covid, you should quarantine yourself. and if you become a smomic it is reasonable to wear a mask and go back into the world for five days while wearing a mask....

Will actually do. and i dont -- i dont always sense that people understand that the testing shortage itself is a self selected group of people who want to test and know. you had a big swath of the country, and a lot of it intersects on the diagram with people who are unvaccinated but not all of it who are not standing in a four-hour line on a street in new york to find out if they are positive or not. you have a big population who may have a cold or a flu who never find out what they have. i won...

Developing continue to develop to contain covid and other strains. >> thats not what we heard in the campaign trail leading up to the 2020 election. >> im going to shut down the virus ill shut down the virus, not the economy. im not going to shut down the country but im going to shut down the virus. >> earlier this week u.s. report over 1 million new covid cases in a single bank shattering previous records amid a testing shortage. the white house assigned to contracts with industry to boost test...

Making on how were addressing the pandemic through messaging or through political concerns. >> harris: jackie heinrich live at the white house. >> they are defending the cdc admit criticism its new post infection testing guidelines are confusing saying the president has full confidence in his medical team of experts at the cdc. this as the director walensky denies a nationwide testing shortage influenced the agencys decision not to include a testing component in the revised quarantine guidance. ...

A stunning gap. >> two different worlds there. in the meantime, the testing shortage does remain problematic. the white house says the first of 500 million free covid-19 tests will start arriving for distribution early next week. officials are working through distribution timelines. they say that americans will be able to start ordering the tests online later this month. starting saturday, health insurers have to cover at-home covid tests without co-pays and deductibles. insurers will be require...