“The problem, in essence, was twofold: The FDA had authorized only a handful of different home tests, and those it had authorized could not increase manufacturing fast enough.” Read the exclusive from KatherineEban.
On October 22, a group of COVID-19 testing experts joined a Zoom call with officials from the Biden administration and presented a strategy for overhauling America’s approach to testing.has obtained, would enable the U.S. to finally do what many other countries had already done: Put rapid at-home COVID-19 testing into the hands of average citizens, allowing them to screen themselves in real time and thereby help reduce transmission.
The meeting attendees came away with mixed opinions. “The White House, in baseball terms, was playing small ball,” said Dr. Steven Phillips, a vice president of science and strategy for the Covid Collaborative, a team of high-level experts working to develop consensus recommendations for policy makers. “When it comes to rapid testing, they’re bunting the players along.
On Tuesday, faced with a terrifying omicron surge, a stampede of holiday travel, and images of Americans waiting in hours-long testing lines from Brooklyn to Miami, Biden finally announced that his administration would do what many experts had been urging since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic: Give Americans the ability to diagnose themselves. The federal government will launch a website next month where individuals can request free rapid tests that will be mailed to their homes.
“The White House, in baseball terms, was playing small ball. When it comes to rapid testing, they’re bunting the players along.” His journey began as early as January 2020, when he saw clearly that Boston was going to need COVID tests it didn’t have. He sought funding from Brigham and Women’s Hospital to build a test. “They thought it was a joke,” he said of some of the hospital’s pathology officials.
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