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 of ...
HHS encourages testing for COVID-19, so that individuals who contract the virus can seek treatment and self-isolate or take other steps, like wear a mask, so as not to infect others. To date, the federal program has distributed more than 900 million tests to American households. The tests...
While none of the free COVID-19 tests being shipped by the U.S. Postal Service this year will have already expired, officials acknowledge many now arriving in mailboxes will likely see their shelf life run out in a few months. So far this season, around 20 million of the 32 million ...
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...
Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes. The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday, allowing any household in the U.S. to order up to four at-home COVID nasal swab kits through the website,
Households were eligible to receive four tests during each of two earlier rounds of ordering through the website. Biden has requested an additional $22 billion from Congress to buy vaccines and therapeutics to prepare for a fall spike in COVID-19 cases, but lawmakers have balked at the price...
October 2, 2024 The federal government is once again offering free COVID test kits. When it opens in September, you can order up to four kits per household atCOVIDTests.gov. All for free. Shipping is free, too. Just give a name and shipping address. Sharing your em...
If you don’t have any more COVID tests stockpiled from mail deliveries or you want/need to get a free test kit immediately, you’re left with 2 ways that you could still effectively get free COVID tests (for now): 1. Get a Free Rapid or PCR Test at Over 20,000 Testing Sites ...
October 25, 2024 HHS Will Provide Free US-Made COVID-19 Tests to Households Samantha Anderer JAMA. 2024;332(19):1602. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.21819 Full Text The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services...
households will again be able to order four free COVID-19 test kits through COVIDTests.gov. So how do you get your next batch of free tests? Visiting the COVIDTests.gov site will redirect you to a USPS site, where you’ll fill out a form with your contact and shipping informatio...