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To get vaccinated as opposed to passing blame. secondly, it is really to expand testing. we have to realize that testing is one of the most critical public health tools that we have. regular, repetitive, once or twice a week testing, people that are at high risk for infection. i particularly think in our schools k-12 we should be testing kids once or twice a week and removing the infected person, an approach that is our strategy of identifying knowledge of infection rather than these generic strategies. let's just assume everybody's infected, let's assume everybody has to do this. no, let's go...

There in january when the information is available, and they will be able to request three tests. that is something that is a reflection of the president's commitment to continue re-examining and improving our covid response, including as it relates to testing. go ahead. >> reporter: another on testing, because why not? there's more to ask here and i don't think we've had answers yet. is there any sense of whether you will be able to guarantee that, from the moment ordered online, how long one will have to wait to receive them? are you going to be relying on fedex, ups, amazon, the postal serv...

About sending tests to people's homes, he said, "should we just send them to every american?" as you have reflected on the change in omicron here, have you reflected on your tone and that answer? >> secretary psaki: well, jeff, i will say there's not a day that goes by that i don't leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision, or additional information. that day there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing i conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests that we were making ava...

♪ ♪ >> gillian: fox news alert, president biden will address the nation in moments. he's planning to lay out his new agenda to fight the winter covid surge. we expect the president to make a major announcement as well about testing. we are going to take to their lives as soon as the president starts. >> mike: "the new york times" taking heat for changing a headline not once but twice on a calm that portrays randi weingarten a champion of school openings. the original headlines, "can this woman save american public education cannot" then it will become, "what will it take to get schools bac...

The 500 million test kits that will begin be available in january is significant, the largest purchase we have sent to date, building on what we have done to date, in an effort to make testing more free, accessible, to people across the country. to go ahead. >> reporter: drill down on the specs of this, if you will. when can americans expect to see these tests? where they coming from, how many can a family or person order it once? is this website going to be able to sustain all these people who want to get on and get these tests? >> secretary psaki: to answer your last question, yes, that is o...