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On Tuesday, Biden’s management quietly announced that it allows Americans to request loose COVID-19 tests at home, a day before the site was officially launched.
The website, COVIDTests. gov, now includes a link for “all families in the United States” to access an order form consistent with the U. S. Postal Service. U. S. Postal Service. It marks President Joe Biden’s latest step in responding to the complaint of low stock and long lines to test a national building in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the online page is in “beta testing” and operating at “limited capacity” ahead of its official launch. The online page will officially launch mid-morning on Wednesday, Psaki said.
There were remote reports Tuesday afternoon of problems with the website’s address verification tool that mistakenly applied the four per household limit in apartment buildings and other multi-unit units. A postal service spokesman said in a statement that the error “occurred in a small percentage of orders. “He said any user who wants assistance can register a service request at emailus. usps. com/s/the-postal-store-inquiry or touch a help desk at 1-800-ASK-USPS.
DOSSIER: Faith Terreri, a worker with the City of Youngstown Health Department, selects two domestic COVID-19 test kits to distribute at a distribution event on December 30, 2021 in Youngstown, Ohio. Biden’s management quietly announced its Tuesday to
As of Tuesday, more than 750,000 people were accessing the online page at the same time, according to public government tracking data, but it was not quickly apparent how many orders had been placed.
Psaki added that the administration made plans with a “bug or two,” but that computer experts from across the government were rushing to prepare the site.
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Biden announced last month that the U. S. The U. S. government would acquire 500 million internal tests to launch the program and on Thursday the president announced he would double the order to 1 billion tests.
But Americans don’t expect a quick turnaround time for orders and will want to plan ahead and request tests long before federal rules on when to use a test are set.
The White House said “tests will be shipped within 7 to 12 days of ordering” via USPS, which reports 1- to 3-day shipping times for its first-class parcel service in the continental United States.
Officials noted that the federal government is just a way for other people to get COVID-19 checks, and the shortage of home control kits has shown symptoms of attenuation as the source increases in the market.
Starting Saturday, according to personal insurance companies, they are required to cover the cost of in-home testing, allowing Americans to receive reimbursement for tests they purchase at pharmacies and online stores. This covers up to 8 tests per month.
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The technical blunders that embarrassed President Barack Obama’s management with the 2013 launch of the online page HealthCare. gov shouldn’t be a challenge to the COVID-19 verification kit’s online page, in part because it’s so much easier, said Alex Howard, director of the Digital Democracy. Project, an open government oversight group. Howard said the new online page is also easier than the online page Vaccines. gov, to locate nearby vaccination clinics and pharmacies, which was already effectively introduced through the Biden administration last year.
Howard said the task of requesting someone’s address is simple, especially compared to the Obama-era health insurance online page that referred to buying other health plans and authenticating a secure transaction. The challenge of hosting a high-demand online page app is also a “solved problem” in the personal sector, he said.
“I hope that the U. S. virtual service will be able to “The U. S. and all the suppliers they work with do that,” he said. “That’s the least complicated component of it all. “
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Two tech companies that work with the federal government, Microsoft and Accenture, submitted questions about the online page to the postal service on Tuesday. Amazon, a leading cloud provider for U. S. agencies, is a major cloud provider. In the U. S. , it did not respond to requests for comment.
Howard said the most complicated component of the task is not yet the physical distribution of the kits.
“It’s not the last time the federal government sent something like this to everyone who wasn’t a tax document,” he said.
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