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>> i want to bring in now andy slavitt. he's a former biden white house senior adviser for covid response. he's also the author of "preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." andy, good to see you in person. >> good to be here, don. >> thank you for joining us. president biden is laying out his plan to fight the winter wave of covid. he's focusing on vaccines and tes tes testing. we've been in this pandemic for 21 months. >> hard to believe. >> i was asking on the break, how long were we in our homes? it's kind of ...

Selfishness, doomed the united states coronavirus response." good to see you. president biden is laying out his plan to fight the winter wave of covid focusing on vaccines and testing. we've been in this pandemic for 21 months. >> hard to believe. i was asking in the break how long were we in our homes? >> well, the difference today, don, versus last year in much of the 21 months is we have a large array of tools. what the president announced today that we'll have at-home tests available for free for americans, 50 million at community health centers, and then insurance companies required to pa...

Know consumer demand is up, we're shopping, we're traveling. when we got that news on friday and you had countries like the united states and other countries start to put in some sort of travel bans, the market got worried. well, today as we're learning more, as it doesn't seem like this variant is as serious as people may have suspected, you're seeing the market come back. >> so dom, it doesn't look like covid, however, is going to go away soon, just having talked to, you know, doctors on this. they say, look, it may not be the omicron that we have to worry about. it may be this new winter wa...

Happened in our delta wave over the summer, since june 1, chris, we've lost -- i calculate 150,000 unvaccinated americans to covid-19, since june 1, 2021, 150,000 unvaccinated americans needlessly lost their lives because they were defiant, and this is going to continue now with this new winter wave, whether it's delta or omicron. i do think there's going to be a lot of spillover. i'd say just the last point, and i'll just mention it and you can decide if you want to talk about it further is the biden administration appears to have no plan to vaccinate the world. i mean, to tell us that they'v...

0 reports." andrea is on assignment. i'm chris jansing. we're following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don't know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up...