Biden’s Poor Timing Costs Taxpayers Millions In Unused Covid Tests

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Biden failed to get the at-home Covid tests out in time last year and not that the virus is winding down, there is a massive unused overstock. The ‘free’ at-home tests are paid for using taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars so what he’s basically done is flushed that money right down the toilet.

AP reported that nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.

Back in in December when news broke that the tests were not coming, the public was outraged—but not shocked:

“I cannot believe this is where we are almost two years into the pandemic. Everybody saw it coming. We knew we needed more tests. I think the administration had dropped the ball on this,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health told CNN back in December. “They focused a lot on vaccines, which is terrific — vaccines are a really, really important part of this — but did not pay enough attention to testing. And I think it has been really costly in this holiday season.”

Dr. Jha was referring to the Omicron virus that they expected to level the rest of the US. If you remember it was going to be the ‘end of days’ for the unvaccinated. I think most of us remember Biden calling it a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, which we of course now know it was not. The highly contagious variant did spread quickly but the hospitals were not overrun by Covid patients as we saw with the original strain.

Hence the decrease in at-home tests orders. It was just more piss-poor planning from the gaffe-in-chief, Biden. He did not get the tests out in time for them to be used. I don’t believe anyone should have expected any different, at this point.

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