“‘I don’t think it’s a failure,’ Biden replied. ‘I think it’s — you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. … I wish I had thought about ordering’ 500 million at-home tests ‘two months ago,’ he told Muir.”
This struck us as a strange response from the president. For a year, he has been promising to fix the lack of testing capacity in the U.S. Here’s a short history of his testing promises:
Jan. 22: Biden promises “a war footing to aggressively speed up our Covid-19 response, especially on vaccines and testing and reopening our schools.”
Feb. 17: Biden announces “a series of new actions to expand Covid-19 testing, improve the availability of tests, and better prepare for the threat of variants.”
March 11: Biden says, “We continue to work on making at-home testing available.”
July 6: Biden says, “We’re going to deploy things like testing to expand detection of the virus.”
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