PSA to readers: as of September 26, 2024, the USPS is once again offering free COVID tests for order on theUSPS test kit site. Shipping is free as well. This is the first time since March that the federal government has offered the free rapid antigen test kits available for order throu...
Free, at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order yours BYLindsey Leake September 25, 2024 at 4:36 AM GMT+8 COVIDtests.gov will once again offer each U.S. household four free COVID-19 test kits beginning in late September 2024. ljubaphoto/Getty Images The summer wave o...
Two government-run efforts to distribute free COVID-19 tests and to offer free courses of Pfizer's Paxlovid antiviral are set to end Friday, as trends of the virus have largely slowed. The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, or ASPR, will stop accepting orders to ship CO...
The free tests will shipped out next week, beginning Oct. 2. Previously, the free tests were typically shipped within seven to 12 days of ordering, with most tests delivered by the USPS within 48 hours of shipping. And here’s an important note about expiration dates: Several FDA-authoriz...
Start atCOVIDTests.govto order your free test kits. When you click to order, you’ll go tospecial.usps.com/testkits. The test kits and shipping are free. Don’t give out your credit card, bank account, or Social Security number. No one will call, text, or emai...
Test kits will ship via USPS and will arrive in 7-12 days, so it's a good idea to order as soon as possible. Don't wait until you have symptoms and need to test. Eight Covidtests.gov test kits via USPS $0 at USPS What's the difference between an antigen test and a PCR test...
Which brings us back to the free at-home testing kits that are once again available. There was no guarantee that the program would restart afterthe most recent round of tests went out last fall. And the end of the emergency declaration means that private insurance companies are no lo...
The free tests from the federal governmentare not valid for travelback to the United States, since they are not proctored. You still need a self-test that is monitored for that. (You may be able to separately pay for monitoring.)
The Federal government’s new website for ordering free at-home COVID-19 tests went live on Jan. 18, drawing over 68 million users to the site over the past week without suffering much in the way of notable performance problems.
If you belong to one of the 66 million U.S households that ordered the free COVID-19 at-home tests from the federal government, you might see them arrive in your mailbox soon.