"If I had known, we would have gone harder"

In a televised exchange with around half of the nation’s governors, Biden said his administration had “worked with Google” so Americans could “search covid test near me — on Google — to find a location.” He also highlighted efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Administration to establish pop-up testing sites in New York City and took credit for test kits being produced by private manufacturers, which he said would total 200 million for the month of December.

However, he conceded, “It is not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I had — we — had known, we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have.”

Covid-19 test shortages have resulted in scenes of mayhem in some locations around the United States, including New York City, where people have been “climbing over” each other in an effort to obtain free at-home kits.