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Spring and summer, i think relief is on the horizon. that's most likely. >> tomorrow, at least, americans can begin to get covid tests, they can go to covidtests.gov and order up to four at-home covid tests per household. how significant is this? >> i think it's great. we have to triage who should be testing. a lot of that supply will still not be available for every household, the minute you press click. and so schools, individuals that are symptomatic, congregated living settings with high-risk individuals, that's still the priority since testing supply is constrained, but it's absolutely a ...

Heidi, let me start with you. take us through the larger points the president made about this pandemic on wednesday in his news conference, and specifically about his administration's response to it. >> reporter: yeah, craig. just acknowledging how people are feeling with those numbers you just mentioned. exhausted. demoralized. i a bit of a national therapy session, and acknowledging some specific things that maybe he could have done differently or better. like testing. started with a testing supply earlier. a lot of it was just reframing the conversation around covid with this new variant th...

That's supposed to take place on january 15th. those of us who want to visit our nation's capitol, if you are unvaccinated you are not able to go restaurants and museums and not participate in life in washington, d.c. even though you should be able to do so in your nation's capitol. a lot of this, in my opinion, is about grabbing power, not actually following the facts and following the science. >> katie: dr. makary, you know, we have seen this testing shortage. we now know the biden administration rejecteds very robust plan in october to get ahead of this testing crunch before the holidays bu...

Ration -- ration these very limited therapeutics on top of all the vaccine duadvocacy we need. >> dr. mazer, do you see -- do you seek omicron being controlled with testing? without enough tests it seems unlikely that can happen. >> i think it would be very challenging to have enough tests to control the spread at a population level. we see in places like england and germany that have really abundant testing. they're unable to control the spread completely, even if the testing is providing some benefit, and even now the u.k., you know, there's reports that they're having shortages of tests eve...

Government has to make sure that there are tests available.— government has to make sure that there are tests available. excuse me for interrupting _ there are tests available. excuse me for interrupting but _ there are tests available. excuse me for interrupting but the _ there are tests available. excuse me for interrupting but the supply - there are tests available. excuse me for interrupting but the supply of- for interrupting but the supply of tests is the issue? if the government is asking them to test twice a week and schools are being given the kids to do it and there is some respons...