As more rapid at-home COVID tests are approved by American regulators, the Biden Administration is reportedly preparing another “investment” in rapid at-home tests (despite lingering criticisms about the frequency of false positives produced by these tests,Ā helping to contribute to America’s COVID “casedemic”).
According to Bloomberg, the Biden AdministrationĀ is preparing to announce a $1 billion purchase of rapid at-home COVID tests with the intention of “expanding the availability of such products in the coming months”.
Of course, as we have reportedĀ timeĀ andĀ time again, the more testing, the more cases.Ā With this latest investment (which has yet to be officially announced) theĀ US will be on track to 4x rapid testing capacity by December.Ā The plan will involve distributing the free tests to an additional 10K US pharmacies, bringing the total number of free testing sites to 30K (including 20K pharmacies).
