Katherine Eban: Biden Admin Passed on Ramping Up Testing, Instead of Doing ‘Operation Warp Speed’ Type Program

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EBAN: "Well, a number of people who were at the meeting and people who had been advocating for a massive surge in rapid testing do feel that these long lines could have been avoided and that also if you surge rapid testing you can go further and actually break these chains of transmission, because what rapid tests do is they give you a snapshot in time. Am I contagious right now as I'm about to walk into my grandmother's home, am I going to turn this family party into a super-spreader event? So people could use those tests to make critical decisions for their families was the argument. You know, experts and advocates have felt that the Biden administration has not prioritized rapid testing; they have prioritized vaccines and vaccinations for Americans, but they did not choose to do something like an Operation Warp Speed for testing, which was the kind of dramatic program that was done for vaccines.”