PSA to readers: as of January, 2025, 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 through th...
There is a limit of one order (which includes four individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests) per residential address. 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 deliver...
To date, the federal program has distributed more than 900 million tests to American households. The tests can be costly when purchased over-the-counter at drugstores across the U.S., making them unaffordable for many families. For example, a pack of two BinaxNow COVID-19 antigen self-tests...
The free COVID tests being offered will be antigen tests, which are generally cheaper and easier to use than some other at-home molecular or lab-based options, but have a higher chance of yielding false negative test results — meaning they miss some cases where a person is actually infected...
In this photo illustration, free iHealth COVID-19 antigen rapid tests from the federal government sit on a U.S. Postal Service envelope after being delivered on February 04, 2022 in San Anselmo, California. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Gett Expand WASHINGTON (AP) - The government ...
If you're enrolled in Medicare Plan B, you still have access to "laboratory-conducted COVID-19 tests" such as polymerase chain reaction tests, but you won't be covered for over-the-counter rapid antigen tests. People with health care coverage through Medicaid or the Children'...
Germany is to offer free COVID-19 antigen tests for all from March, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Tuesday, as the country cautiously began allowing some children to return to schools. "From 1 March, all citizens will be able to be tested free of charge by trained personnel" with the te...
Americans will not be able to order free at-home COVID tests after Friday, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday.
Ordering through this program will be suspended on Friday, September 2 because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests. Getty Images I Missed the Deadline. Now What? If you missed the deadline to order at-home rapid Covid-19 antigen tests, ...
The COVID-19 tests are available for order at COVIDtests.gov, and come in a set of four. Any household is eligible to order up to eight tests, now, with this update. The tests available are rapid antigen at-home tests, not PCR tests which can be used anywhere. Test results are...