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Question. there was just a lot of overconfidence there. oh, yeah, we had tests before. this one is going to work. and why didn't the leadership at cdc and hhs, and the trump administration say, you know, maybe we should look at these other tests and have them in our back pocket in case this doesn't work out. that's a question that hasn't really been answered. >> dan, what's interesting, you did some great investigative reporting. once you got the documents, hhs tried to claw them back. you're like, oh, that must mean we do have something good here. why should we care now? why does this matter ...

Reveal crucial information about why the first cdc covid test failed in the early days of the pandemic and what it meant for the deadly spread in the united states. science reporter is dan bergano. heck of a story. thank you so much for joining us. in summation, it was a mess. i mean, it was a mess. and you had one lab and other labs that were just overburdened by the scope of the coronavirus challenge. >> that's right. what we got with these documents, which we were quite surprised the government gave to us unredacted and complete, peered into the burden of the labs that suddenly had the whol...