Speaking to the nation's governors, President Biden conceded that the steps he took earlier this year to scale up testing capacity for Covid-19 weren't enough to meet demand as a wave driven by the Omicron variant crashes across the country.
"It's not enough. It's clearly not enough. If we'd have known, we'd have gone harder, quicker if we could have," he said while joining a weekly virtual meeting between state leaders and members of his Covid-19 response team.He said long testing lines over the Christmas weekend"shows that we have more work to do.
""It's important from him to hear directly from nation's governors right now," a White House official said, and"he's doing just that."The President was not expected to make any major announcements during the call, the official said. Biden departed later in the afternoon for a brief holiday stay at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after spending the Christmas weekend with family at the White House.
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