{"id":1161563,"date":"2021-12-27T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161563"},"modified":"2021-12-27T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:19:43","slug":"joe-biden-admits-failure-on-not-enough-coronavirus-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-admits-failure-on-not-enough-coronavirus-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Admits Failure on &#039;Not Enough&#039; Coronavirus Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-admits-failure-on-not-enough-coronavirus-testing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden admitted Monday his administration had failed to provide enough coronavirus tests to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>The president acknowledged there were long lines across the country in front of testing locations ahead of the Christmas holiday, especially after the swift spread of the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSeeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more work to do,\u201d he said during a video call with American governors on his efforts to combat the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Biden detailed his efforts to ramp up testing but indicated it would have been harder to do better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s clearly not enough,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIf we had known, we would have gone harder, quicker if we could have.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19275898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237434683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19275898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237434683-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A sign directs commuters towards a coronavirus testing site in the Times Square subway station on December 27, 2021 in New York City. (Scott Heins\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week, Biden said he did not believe his administration had failed on acquiring enough tests, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/president-biden-abcs-david-muir-home-covid-testing\/story?id=81898621\">interview<\/a> with ABC\u2019s David Muir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a failure,\u201d Biden replied. \u201cI think it\u2019s \u2014 you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden boasted to governors that the federal government would purchase 500 million tests and distribute them to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>During the call, Gov. Asa Hutchinson thanked Biden for working with governors but noted that the federal government\u2019s effort to buy up tests would hurt state attempts to acquire tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat dries up the supply chain for what we might offer as governors,\u201d Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DHS Sec. Mayorkas: We Did Not Test Haitian Migrants for COVID Before Releasing Them into U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbe2Va5CXo\">pic.twitter.com\/dbe2Va5CXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1442088408894124033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden again urged Americans to get coronavirus vaccines and warned unvaccinated people they faced a higher risk of getting severely ill, being hospitalized, and death.<\/p>\n<p>The call was led by Biden\u2019s coronavirus response team from the imitation White House set in the Executive Office Building. Zients noted that it was the 40th time that the group of governors participated in the call with the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s more times than I\u2019ve seen ya,\u201d Biden chuckled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden admitted Monday his administration had failed to provide enough coronavirus tests to the American people. 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