and there are more questions than there are answers about this testing strategy. who s making the 500 million tests? they don t have contracts yet, but jen psaki said a few minutes ago they re not worried about that. they think they can get those tests. who is building this website where we re all going to go and order these tests? we recall what happened with the obamacare rollout the obama administration. that s not an easy thing to build. what happens after you get a test? 300 million americans. is that amount of tests enough? they re trying to answer those questions even as americans need those tests right now. josh, they ve invoked the defense production act. what does that help with by doing that? will it fast track it or, you know, we ll get to this with
tests that they have acquired, we would blow through those tests with the current screening requirements in about five days. they have got about 160 million a month planned for the next three months. you would need 2 billion a month to keep up with their own guidance. they have not moved their guidance from a universal testing protocol to a selective testing strategy. we are still waiting to hear from them about that. katie: speaking of hearing from them today we heard from president joe biden about his responsibility for what s going on. take a listen. look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved state level. i m looking at governor sununu on the board here. he talks about that a lot. and it ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road and that s where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for help. katie: beverly, that s the opposite of what we heard from joe biden on the 2020 presidential campaign trail.
your insight. thanks for the time. thank you. and a further discussion of covid policies and white house s testing strategy and what you can do to keep you and your family safe during the latest covid surge will be on state of the union later this morning at 9:00 a.m. with dr. anthony fauci. state of the union with jake tapper and dana bash on cnn. meanwhile, at least three people are now missing after a fast-moving wildfire tore through boulder, colorado. giving all three lived in homes that were destroyed by the blaze, unfortunately, authorities say they do fear the worst. the marshal fire leveleded entire subdivisions in minutes, destroying nearly 1,000 homes in the state since thursday and survivors say they saw their whole lives change in a matter of seconds. it looked like something just came and flattened out parts of the neighborhood, trees are
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