{"id":1205271,"date":"2022-01-10T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205271"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:50:35","slug":"why-is-it-you-guys-were-so-unprepared-peter-doocy-hammers-psaki-on-testing-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-it-you-guys-were-so-unprepared-peter-doocy-hammers-psaki-on-testing-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why Is It You Guys Were So Unprepared?\u2019: Peter Doocy Hammers Psaki On Testing Failures"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwhy-is-it-you-guys-were-so-unprepared-peter-doocy-hammers-psaki-on-testing-failures%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=1205271&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>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy challenged press secretary Jen Psaki directly during Monday\u2019s press briefing, asking why President Joe Biden\u2019s administration had been so \u201cunprepared\u201d for the dramatic uptick in demand for COVID-19 testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/my-question-was-about-xi-peter-doocy-protests-while-jen-psaki-circles-back-to-question-about-crime\/\">Doocy<\/a>, who spent part of his own holiday isolating with COVID-19, said that he had followed President Biden\u2019s advice \u2014 to \u201cGoogle COVID test near me\u201d \u2014 only to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/incompetence-of-a-monumental-scale-chris-christie-says-biden-couldnt-have-been-more-wrong-on-covid-testing\/\">testing centers<\/a> were fully booked and no appointments were available.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning that Doocy had been isolating, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/take-that-scrooge-jen-psaki-claims-president-biden-saved-christmas\/\">Psaki<\/a> began by ribbing him and asking whether he had spent the entire time he was holed up watching his own network \u2014 to which Doocy replied that, in addition to watching Fox News content, he had \u201cexhausted the full catalog of Guy Fieri content\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOOCY TIME: \u201cI heard the President say, \u2018Google Covid tests near me.\u2019 So, somebody isolating with Covid, I did that, and the appointments everywhere were completely jammed. So, why is it you guys were so unprepared for the need for testing after the holidays?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tE3NBQ3a8l\">pic.twitter.com\/tE3NBQ3a8l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1480625836038529028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the President say, \u2018Google COVID tests near me.\u2019 So, as somebody isolating with COVID, I did that, and the appointments everywhere were completely jammed. So, why is it you guys were so unprepared for the need for testing after the holidays?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Peter, I\u2019m happy to see you back and well,\u201d Psaki began. \u201cI would second say that there has been a massive surge in cases \u2014 as you know and were a part of \u2014 in D.C. and New York. And there has been an unprecedented \u2014 and in other parts of the country as well \u2014 there\u2019s been unprecedented demand for tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what we have done over the course of the last few weeks and even before that, is the president quadrupled our testing capacity since the summer,\u201d Psaki continued. \u201cWe opened 20,000 sites across the country and we\u2019ve also opened additional federal sites, including one in D.C. only recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki went on to tout the president\u2019s promise to send out 50 million tests to Americans who need them, in addition to securing contracts to procure additional test kits and making sure that more rapid tests were available and approved for emergency use.<\/p>\n<p>Doocy went on to argue that patients needed to travel and then wait in line for a test \u2014 something that did not align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance advising those with symptoms to stay home. He referenced Biden\u2019s promise to send out home test kits to Americans, asking again why the administration had not been better prepared to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doocy: \u201c[T]ests\u2026require people to go somewhere &amp; either make an appointment or wait in line\u2026.You guys said you were going to mail free tests to people that need them. [Biden\u2019s] talking about a winter of severe illness &amp; death\u2026Why weren\u2019t you guys not doing more to prepare[?]\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eA4yCJ94MJ\">pic.twitter.com\/eA4yCJ94MJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1480626902650040328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psaki pushed back, saying that there would be more information available on the test kits later in the week, but Doocy continued to press. \u201cAt the rate you guys are going, these tests are not going to be available until spring, so will you admit that these free tests you guys promised are not going to be ready until after the omicron surge?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doocy: At the rate you guys are going, these tests are not going to be available until spring, so will you admit that these free tests you guys promised are not going to be ready until after the omicron surge?<\/p>\n<p>Psaki: I think I gave an update\u2026We\u2019ll have tests..in the coming wks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICq9Nex2HY\">pic.twitter.com\/ICq9Nex2HY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1480627399133904902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doocy pressed once more, asking whether the federal government would consider rolling back the vaccine mandate for federal employees \u2014 which included those employed by the U.S. Postal Service \u2014 if it meant they would retain more employees and could get test kits delivered to the American people faster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doocy: \u201c[Y]ou\u2026plan to rely on the Postal service to send out these free tests\u2026The postal service says they\u2019re going to have a staffing shortage b\/c of your vaccine mandates. So, would you pull back on the vaccine mandate if it meant getting people these free tests sooner?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nYMZ1lJIuF\">pic.twitter.com\/nYMZ1lJIuF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1480627973355196426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psaki replied that the Postal Service was ready and \u201ceager to take on this challenge\u201d without the mandate being rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>Doocy\u2019s final question was about the vaccines and whether, after a number of people including Doocy himself had tested positive despite being \u201ctriple-vaxxed,\u201d Biden intended to continue calling the spread of COVID-19 a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doocy: \u201cI understand\u2026the science says the vaccines prevent deaths, but I\u2019m triple vaxxed, still got Covid. You are triple vaxxed, still got Covid. Why is [Biden] still referring to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy challenged press secretary Jen Psaki directly during Monday\u2019s press briefing, asking why President Joe Biden\u2019s administration had been so \u201cunprepared\u201d for the dramatic uptick in demand for COVID-19 testing. Doocy, who spent part of his own holiday isolating with COVID-19, said that he had followed President Biden\u2019s advice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}