{"id":1208586,"date":"2022-01-11T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208586"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:50:33","slug":"biden-administration-reveals-50-million-coronavirus-tests-are-just-sitting-in-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-reveals-50-million-coronavirus-tests-are-just-sitting-in-warehouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Reveals 50 Million Coronavirus Tests Are Just Sitting in Warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-reveals-50-million-coronavirus-tests-are-just-sitting-in-warehouses%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=1208586&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237564492-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Assistant Secretary Dawn&nbsp;O\u2019Connell from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday revealed 50 million coronavirus tests are sitting in warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>As&nbsp;the Biden administration purchases $190 million worth of testing kits in January,&nbsp;Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) asked&nbsp;O\u2019Connell during a Senate committee hearing if she could assure him that Biden\u2019s testing kit purchases are not originating from Communist China.<\/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>O\u2019Connell responded by admitting HHS has millions of unused tests in warehouses, which are in addition to the outstanding tests out for delivery to the warehouses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo is what you\u2019re telling me they\u2019ve got 50 million tests in warehouses in the United States and all we did was access the inventory?\u201d Burr asked for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is my understanding,\u201d&nbsp;O\u2019Connell responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, will you confirm your understanding?\u201d Burr asked. \u201cThis is a very, very important piece when you\u2019ve got companies that don\u2019t manufacture tests and all of a sudden we\u2019re giving them a $190 million contract for about 14 million home tests and their expertise is importation of vodka.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HHS reveals during a Senate hearing that 50 million COVID tests are sitting in warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePavlich\/status\/1480932705936236545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While HHS acknowledged it has not shipped 50 million tests, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/26\/bidens-been-breaking-his-promises-on-covid-tests-all-year-only-to-keep-doing-it-again-and-again\/\">promised<\/a> to have enough testing kits available for all Americans. Yet after the omicron variant reached the nation\u2019s shores, Americans found testing kits in short supply.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s clearly not enough. If I had \u2014 we had \u2014 known, we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/28\/politics\/biden-covid-testing-shortage\/index.html\">admitted<\/a> in December he broke his testing kit promise. \u201cWe have to do more. We have to do better, and we will.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Secretary Dawn\u00a0O\u2019Connell from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday revealed 50 million coronavirus tests are sitting in warehouses. 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