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...
COVIDtests.gov will once again offer each U.S. household four free COVID-19 test kits beginning in late September 2024.
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 email...
The program's website encourages people to check test expiration dates against the FDA'supdated guidanceon tests' shelf life. Some test kits with expiration dates printed on them that are in the past, may in fact still deliver accurate results. HHS encourages testing for COVID-19, so...
The Biden administration is making free at-home COVID tests available to the public this week, after the president revealed in December he would do so as part of his strategy to combat winter case surges. The federal government is supplying 500 million over-the-counter kits—a pu...
If you don’t see the button for any reason, you can go directly to the USPS site (which is where the button would send you anyway) atspecial.usps.com/testkits. Fill in your name, email address (if you want to receive notifications), and shipping address. ...
since added multiple new rounds of deliveries. As of this article’s publish date (September 26, 2024), free COVID test kit mail delivery orders on theUSPS COVID test order websiteare live. It is not clear how long the USPS will be shipping out free COVID test kits this time around....
Biden's free Covid test program is quick, efficient and potentially lifesaving. It's also a reminder of how low we’ve set the bar when it comes to our expectations.
The homemoleculartests delivered by that program – Pfizer's Lucira test for COVID-19 and flu – are more sensitive than other kinds of at-home rapid antigen tests that had been shipped from the USPS orders. That program is set to wind down in mid-April, a spokesperson for the NIH's ...
Once you have placed your initial order, if you did not order previously in the fall when the free tests were made available in September, you will be prompted to go through the process again for a second set of four tests. The USPS says the test kits will begin shipping the week of ...