Hari Sreenivasan:
With the demand for exams rising and vacation plans on maintain for some, traces are lengthy for COVID testing in lots of components of the nation.
And in the case of speedy exams–the sort you should buy in a drugstore– the united statesis lagging far behind many international locations in each availability and distribution. I spoke with ProPublica reporter Lydia Depillis concerning the Biden administration’s newest strikes to extend provides and about her latest article titled “Here is why speedy Covid exams are so costly and arduous to search out.”
Lydia, for the previous a number of months, we’ve got, as a nation been targeted on vaccinations, however right here we’re staring down one other variant, Omicron, and individuals are realizing as soon as once more the worth of testing. So 20 months right into a pandemic, why do not we’ve got extra speedy exams that we are able to take house and attempt to beat this?
