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...
The home molecular tests 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'...
Go to covidtests.gov. Tap on the button reading Order Free At-home Tests. 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) at special.usps.com/testkits. Fill in your name, email address (if ...
Ahead of what’s shaping up to be another seasonalspike in Covid-19 cases, the Biden administration is once againoffering free at-home teststhrough the U.S. Postal Service. Starting Monday, anyone who wants four tests shipped to their home simply has to go toCovidTests.govand fill ...
This is a very strange way to send out tests. It might have seemed wiser to build up the supply chain through local and national drugstores, rather than centralizing distribution, but remember that this is also a backdoor subsidy for the US Postal Service. ...
As of this morning, the most-visited Federal website from the past week was theUnited States Postal Service(USPS) order page – the page COVIDTests.gov brings visitors to when they order their at-home COVID-19 tests. The USPS order page had over 71 million visitors over the past week....
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.
whencold,flu, andCOVIDgerms run rampant, and according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)COVID cases and hospitalizations are on the rise. To help mitigate the spread of the virus, the US government wants to ensure everyone in America has access to free COVID-19 tests....
Additionally, traffic to other websites associated with the USPS - which handles COVIDtests.gov – stood at 10 percent of government website traffic. There have been no reports of the website buckling under the traffic.Complaints about the new servicewere not absent, however, and centered aroun...