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Biden’s leadership has announced that it will allocate 600 million dollars of investment to produce a new COVID-19 at home.
The federal government has relaunched the consistent ban on Americans requesting up to four free COVID-19 tests per household. Darla Miles has more.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is offering a $600 million investment to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and has relaunched the online page to allow Americans to reorder up to four loose tests per family, in an effort to stave off a potential coronavirus shortage. Cases that occur regularly in the colder months.
The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed in COVIDTests. gov Sept. 25 and loose tests will be delivered at no cost through the U. S. Postal Service. U. S.
Twelve brands employing many other people in seven states have secured investments and will produce two hundred million over-the-counter tests to fill federal inventories for government use, in addition to generating enough tests to meet the demand for tests ordered online, the branch said. Said. . . Federal officials said this would help guard against chain-of-origin issues that have led to some shortage of at-home COVID testing conducted overseas, in addition to rising coronavirus cases.
Dawn O’Connell, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response, said the online site would continue to operate to get orders during the holidays and “we reserve the right to keep it open even longer if we start to see an increase in cases. “””.
“If those tests are requested, we need to make sure they’re made to be given to other Americans in this way,” O’Connell said. “But, at this point, our purpose is to get during the holidays and make sure other people can get tested if they’re going to see grandma on Thanksgiving. “
The controls are designed to detect newly circulating COVID variants and are expected to be in use until the end of the year. However, the FDA has extended the expiration dates of some home checkups. The company said the extensions were granted because “The manufacturer has provided knowledge that it appears that the shelf life is longer than that known when the control was first authorized. “The detailed list of COVID controls and their expiration dates were posted on the FDA website.
The initiative follows four previous cycles in which federal officials and the U. S. Postal Service have not been allowed to do so. The U. S. government sent more than 755 million tests to homes across the country.
It also aims to complement ongoing federal efforts to supply COVID-free to long-term care facilities, schools, low-income senior housing, the uninsured, and underserved communities, which are already distributing four million per week and have distributed 500 million tests. to date. said the ministry.
O’Connell said brands could distribute the two hundred million tests they produce for federal use over 18 months. This means that as requests for at-home testing through the online page or in U. S. stores increase. In the U. S. , brands can focus on fulfilling those orders, but then they’ll have an extra outlet for the tests they produce at a time when demand is waning.
“We’ve noticed that both in one and in the winter, as other people move indoors from heated spaces, away from the outside, in seasons where COVID has been a concern, we’ve noticed cases pass,” O’Connell said. .
He added that “there is an opportunity or possibility that some other variant will appear,” but “we don’t anticipate it. “
“That’s why we’re doing this,” O’Connell said. We are doing this for the upcoming fall and winter season and for the prospect of higher cases that will result. “
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said, “The Biden-Harris administration, in partnership with domestic manufacturers, has made wonderful progress in addressing vulnerabilities in the U. S. chain of origin. “We are doing the U. S. by reducing our dependence on manufacturing. “
“These critical investments will increase production levels of immediate COVID-19 home tests in our country and mitigate the spread of the virus,” Becerra said in a statement.
KABC-TV contributed to this report.
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