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People who have been vaccinated can donate blood as long as they have no symptoms when donating. now, on the testing front, a major development here. health insurers are going to have to pay for your at-home covid test starting saturday. people with private insurance can buy these tests online or at stores and then get reimbursed by submitting a claim with no copays or deductibles. the biden administration struck this deal with insurers to cover up to eight tests per person each month. still, the pressingi issue righ now, access to the tests. many people struggling to buy at-home tests, whil...

Cnn, new york. >> a national consultant for covid-19 testing and president and ceo of premier medical group usa in hawaii. thank you so much for being here in what has been an incredibly confusing 24-hour period on the testing front. definitely the crisis in testing is acute in the united states and elsewhere. dr. walensky from the head of the cdc defended the fact that in shortening the isolation in the quarantine, that they are not asking people to test out because in her words rapid tests are not effective enough with diagnosing infectiousness in people. i want you to listen to dr. fauci's ...

Enough testing. we're going to put the full force of the federal government behind expanding testing by launching a covid-19 pandemic testing board. we continue to work on making at-home testing available. from the start, america has failed to do enough covid-19 testing. seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend, shows we have more work to do. >> well, president and his administration have plans to ramp up testing. cnn's jeremy diamond has the details. >> reporter: with coronavirus cases skyrocketing across the country and only expected to rise further after the hol...

That's going to work. there is a web site that's going to launch in january. that is not up yet, and we don't know who's going to be eligible for the tests, how many each household can get. whether they let seniors get the test before other people, a lot of questions on the testing front, and you have people waiting days to get test results back, and unable to find any of these home tests, so a lot of obstacles, struggles ahead for this administration, but as you noted, some tools finally in the tool box to get this pandemic under control. >> as far as trusted information, meg you have been pr...

Of the essence. how are they going to pull this off? >> right, steph. a lot of potentially good news or good signs on the horizon but still a lot of challenges ahead. you mentioned these pills from pfizer. the administration has spent $10 billion on new drugs and treatments. they hope to have 10 million courses of treatment by late summer of just this pfizer pill, which appears to be a game changer, but to get to that point, the administration is going to need to help pfizer speed up manufacturing and production they said yesterday because that is a big challenge for the company. they've also ...