White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the first batch of the 500 million COVID-19 tests that President Joe Biden promised late last month will arrive later in January. “We’re on track to start seeing movement on some of the awards through the RFP (request for proposals) this week,” she told reporters Tuesday. “The first delivery from manufacturers will start later this month. That’s our expectation.” In a terse exchange, Psaki was asked by a CBS reporter about whether administration officials agree Biden has “lost control” over the pandemic response. “We would not,” Psaki said in response amid numerous questions from reporters during Tuesday’s briefing about the disease . Biden started increasing U.S. testing efforts and capacity after pushback for not making at-home COVID-19 tests widely available ahead of the Omicron variant’s spread, which has driven up case numbers in the United States in recent days. At the same time, Americans have scrambled …
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