Free at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order
Free at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order
Free at-home COVID-19 tests can now be ordered online, and they will be delivered at no cost by the U.S. Postal Service.
Starting Monday, [people in the US] can once again order free at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered straight to their homes.
The Biden administration announced last week that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce the new tests and restarting a website allowing Americans to order up to four tests per household.
Orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov, and the no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service starting Oct. 2, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Link to order: COVIDTests.gov
The actual hyperlink works, but the URL "covidtests.gov" doesn't go anywhere.
It's www.covid.gov/tests
Weird. covidtests.gov loaded just fine on my devices and browsers.
Thanks, been meaning to look into this and you saved me the mental effort.
done. pretty please don't let them send me Binax again those are a pain in the ass compared to iHealth.
If they are a pain in your ass then you are using them incorrectly. The swab goes in your nose.
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But I'm bi-testual
Got’em!
Not according to China.
Thank you for the reminder!
Super easy to get signed up. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reminding us! Just ordered.
Does anyone know anything if these tests have been updated in any way since the onset of covid? I read a couple mutation strands in that they were less effective as they mutated, but if that is true I imagine we're quite a number of strands down the line now, and am curious about the tests and how they work
The short answer is yes, these home tests are still effective:
But ultimately, the tests are still capable of picking up infections, said Todd Merchak, who co-leads the RADx program at the National Institutes of Health. The program, whose name is short for “rapid acceleration of diagnostics,” was created during the pandemic to quickly develop tests for the coronavirus.
“To date, the performance of currently marketed COVID-19 tests has not been adversely impacted by any new variants,” Merchak said in a statement.
The reason is because:
Most rapid tests, on the other hand, target the nucleocapsid proteins, or N-protein, of the coronavirus. N-proteins don’t change as much as spike proteins do.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/health/covid-19-home-tests-still-work-wellness/index.html
Your order #: HE000BN2GQQLDPQNW12T40375228 has been placed.
That seems a little excessive. Like they need to have a different number for every atom of the Earth.
For a domain using the TLD "world", and then defaulting to US news, is pretty annoying.
Why not put US in the title?
I kept the title verbatim because of rule 4 of /c/news: "4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source."
But I did specify "people in the US" in the summary body for clarity.
The news community is primarily US news. If you want primarily non-US news, try the worldnews community.
If you don't like it, take it up with the admins, or host your own instance.
The sidebar literally says the world is welcome and that this is a world news community.
usdefaultism at it again.
I guess all we can do is post news from our countries.
What's annoying is seeing this same damn whiny complaint on every US news post in this community.
Get the fuck over it already.
Maybe Americans should stop being so usdefaultism?