MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes September 23, 2021 00:55:00
Going to design a test, they had access to the virus samples, so they would design a test. that would manufacture it as small scale and deploy to it the public health labs. there is 100 public health labs in this country, each capable of doing about 100 tests a day. that's 10,000 tests a day. that's nowhere what was needed. we needed to get the commercial manufacturers engaged from the outset. someone from early january inside the administration needed to say we need more testing and needed to get the large scale manufacturers in the game. cdc was not going to be able to fill the testing void....