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Six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. >> reporter: but many public health experts have been sounding the alarm for months. >> everybody saw it coming. we knew we needed more tests. i think the administration dropped the ball on this. >> we're still way behind on testing. >> frankly, a big problem is right from the start we didn't have a strategic plan about how testing was going to fit in with our response. >> reporter: and in october, anticipating a winter surge, a group of experts, including dr. michael minna, made an urgent plea to white house officials. >> tried everything i could t...

Rather, they believe in dick at that tore -- dictatorial conduct, and they're not going to get passed the congress or signed into la you. jacqui: this has been a pretty tough week for the biden administration, there's been a record setting surge of cases. a muddled on testing, former members of biden's health team adopting a strategy of living can with covid and then the president admitting covid is here to stay in one form other another. how much do you see this impacting the success and how much is the g.o.p. positioning around that? >> well, the virus is definitely impacting the success of ...

Embarks on his second year in office. >> reporter: president biden's week going from bad to worse. >> there's a lot of talk about disappointments and things we haven't gotten done. we're going to get a lot of them done, i might add. but this is something we did get done. >> reporter: biden highlighting his infrastructure bill after being forced to confront one setback after another, putting his presidency in a perilous position as he approaches one year in office. >> the truth is an agenda doesn't wrap up in one year. >> reporter: a key component of the legislative agenda was brought to a halt...

Weeks, just monday alone we had over a million new cases and it's largely omicron and we talked a little bit about the hospitalizations but we are also seeing breakthrough infections for those who have some immunity, either they've been vaccinated, they've had covid before and so how do we treat that and just about everybody you know either has omicron or they have friends or family that have it. that's how fast it has transmitted, so now we have to get in there and treat it as quickly as possible and we need the testing and we need the treatments to be readily available so we can treat it. ja...

That settled over everybody. >> as omicron swept across the country, the nfl said it saw average cases jump from below 30 a week to more than 300. now, there is one place dr. sills said covid transmission remains very unlikely, and that is here on the field. before omicron, omicron did not document a single case of covid crossing the line of scrimmage. omicron no doubt has blurred that picture, but one thing has remained true. having good ventilation, being outside, is going to be a much safer environment. indoors, the league has continued to require masks and implement physical distancing. bu...