A group of Senate Democrats wrote President Joe Biden’s top COVID-19 pandemic adviser last week and demanded answers for obvious shortcomings in Biden’s pandemic response.
The concerns outlined in the letter stand in stark contrast to Biden’s October 2020 promise to “shut down the virus.”
What does the letter say?
The group of Senate Democrats sent a letter to White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeffrey Zients on Thursday, demanding answers for the Biden administration’s failure to take proactive steps to increase COVID testing.
The Democrats — Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — demanded to know “why the Administration failed to take more significant steps earlier to increase access to at-home tests.”
“Across America, there are lines for city blocks long to get COVID testing, signs in pharmacies saying they are out of rapid tests, hospitals operating under crisis standards of care, health care staff and first responders falling ill, and millions of people who are exhausted from the toll this pandemic has had,” the letter states.
The letter goes on to say: