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PostSubject: Biden administration to stop sending free at-home Covid tests Friday   Biden administration to stop sending free at-home Covid tests Friday EmptyMon Aug 29, 2022 2:28 pm

Biden administration to stop sending free at-home Covid tests Friday
Monica Alba and Dennis Romero and Elizabeth Chuck | MSNBC
Mon, August 29, 2022 at 6:22 AM

The government will end its giveaway of Covid-19 at-home tests Friday because of insufficient congressional funding, a senior Biden administration official said Sunday.

A stockpile of the tests is being depleted, and officials want to have enough on hand in the event of a fall surge, the source said.

The giveaway, which includes tests mailed at no cost to recipients who request them at Covidtests.gov, will end Friday, according to an announcement on the site — unless there's a surprise round of funding from Congress, the source said.

"If Congress provides funding, we will expeditiously resume distribution of free tests through covidtests.gov," the source said. "Until then, we believe reserving the remaining tests for distribution later this year is the best course."

The administration official who spoke to NBC News castigated Congress.

"The administration has been clear about our urgent Covid-19 response funding needs," the source said. "We have warned that congressional inaction would force unacceptable tradeoffs and harm our overall Covid-19 preparedness and response — and that the consequences would likely worsen over time."

Fewer people are testing for the coronavirus, and many are believed to have had it without knowing conclusively. In fact, experts believe many Americans have been reinfected at this point in the pandemic.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser, has said he believes Covid-19 will be a seasonal occurrence, like the flu.

With the halting of distribution Friday, the vast majority of people in the U.S. would still have the option of free testing or getting reimbursed through private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.

The federal government has distributed an estimated 600 million tests through its Covid-19 test website. It first started shipping the free tests in January, when the omicron variant was peaking.

It was not immediately clear how many are currently left in the stockpile.

In March, the White House asked Congress for an additional $22.5 billion in funding for Covid relief efforts, warning that it would be unable to sustain testing capacity without it.

But an impasse resulted in the funding, which the Biden administration also intended to use for research and treatments, not being granted
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PostSubject: Re: Biden administration to stop sending free at-home Covid tests Friday   Biden administration to stop sending free at-home Covid tests Friday EmptyMon Aug 29, 2022 2:35 pm

I ordered those. By the time I got them whatever I had already cleared up. Oh well they're in the medicine cabinet if I ever want to scalp uh I mean use them.
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