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COVIDTests.gov is accepting orders for free rapid tests a day early
·Contributing Writer
Tue, January 18, 2022, 12:32 PM
Folks in the US can now order free, at-home COVID-19 tests from a United States Postal Service website, one day earlier than expected. Last week, the Biden administration said people would be able to place orders starting on Wednesday. At the time of the announcement, COVIDtests.gov was a placeholder site, but it now directs users to the USPS to place an order.
Households can each request one set of four rapid antigen tests. USPS will start shipping the kits later this month and usually within seven to 12 days of ordering.
The administration says the site went live one day early as part of its beta phase, according to CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins. Officials are hoping to troubleshoot the site and ensure the official launch goes smoothly on Wednesday. Sure enough, at the time of writing, some people were having trouble loading the site, so you might not be able to place an order right away.
The COVIDtests.gov site provides some more information about the tests. You should see results within 30 minutes and can be taken anywhere. It provides guidance on when to take a test, as well as directions on what to do based on the results. The site also has resources about testing sites and insurance reimbursement for at-home tests.
The Biden administration said it was buying a billion rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to distribute to Americans. Half of those are expected to be available for order this week. The White House said its goal was to make sure everyone has a test available when they need one, especially given that tests are in high demand and are often difficult to find in stores.
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I've done a bit of reading up on these tests and can't really understand their practicality. If you have Covid but don't have any symptoms they are likely to give a negative reading. If you have symptoms they are more likely to work and get a positive reading. Kind of a shut the barn door after the horse has escaped scenario. Gives you something to do but doesn't accomplish much. If you want to visit Grandma and have a runny nose, no test necessary just stay home. I think the tests are nothing but the government trying to show in a clumsy way that they are doing something, anything to alleviate the pandemic. We are probably all going to catch Covid at some point and since you can be reinfected what is the point of the test?
This is a comment about why a new vaccine may not be necessary;
Dr. Shaun Truelove, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, agrees: “Given how quickly this [variant] is happening, [the targeted vaccine] may not matter because everybody’s going to be infected,” says Truelove, a member of The Covid Scenario Modeling Hub, a team of researchers who make Covid projections.
So since we are all going to get it, what is the point of the tests? If you are one of the rare people that gets a severe infection you will be in the hospital anyway and will be tested there. Bob
The term "Free" relative to anything from the government is the greatest oxymoron I know of.
they have to spend the money somehow. This will just drive Inflation higher.
Sick people stand in lines for hours to get tested. If you weren't infected, you will spread it when you go home.
Out of work , nothing else to do .
Yup, wife ordered them & we received the confirmation.
I will ours sealed up. Someday they may be a novelty item.
This is a rather long but easily understood article about the quick covid tests;
Among other things it says you can be contagious for two days before the test will show an infection. So if your test is negative, you can still infect grandma. Bob
I don't get it. If you aren't sick, why test? If you are sick, you already know, so why test?
The only thing this will accomplish will be greatly up the numbers of fals positive "COVID infections" in order to further increase the dempanic.
By jove! I think you've got it! Bob
Not to mention the collective swelling of a goodly number of bank accounts, And you don't even get a kiss!
If I hadn't taken the at home test I might have been going about my business spreading it willy nilly. I didn't have a cough, runny nose, sneezing or fever symptom. So, taking the test kept me home and may have kept me from spreading it.
On the other hand, you can get false negatives like my friend did and she had symptoms. She went to work for three days with symptoms. When she did test positive she stayed home.
She assumed she didn't have it because she had been fighting a sinus infection for a couple of weeks and symptoms didn't change much. It's all a crap shoot.
Follow the money. Some people are getting very rich off selling these tests. Has anyone really heard what they charge the government for these tests or Vaccinations? Or even who has money invested in these company’s that are in high places in are government?
The US Government is doing this to further entrench itself into our individual lives. No politician will have the guts to put a stop to this idiocy.
A hearty blankyou to Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden.
Brad Steele
Notice the new Covid metric is not "deaths" or "hospitalizations", now it is "case counts". As in the Omicron case count is increasing by 1,000,000 per day now!!! Shriek! Scream! Run in Circles!!!
What they neglect to mention is, the death count is ridiculously low. Dec 13th there were zero deaths. By Jan 5th one medical expert quoted zero deaths, another quoted 75 deaths. Worldwide. Latest estimates are that this thing is far less deadly than the flu.
Anything to keep the hysteria on a high boil.
If it was Cold Season, which it is, and you did not have any Cold symptoms, would you take a test to see if you had a Cold? Would you worry about catching a cold, avoid people, wear a mask? No, you'd go about living your life.
33% positive test in the state. minimal deaths..
They are like ballots. They send them to millions of people who do not need them or want them, and they go to waste.
Or, they are sold to the highest bidder.
Yes. Just like ballots.
Brad Steele
I wonder why they don't keep track of (or announce daily) how many driver's licenses were issued yesterday?
I suppose that would not make a very interesting (frightening?) report if that number was compared to the number of traffic deaths?
There are a bunch of folks in this country. Many of them are doing "something" everyday. If you want to make an interesting news story that your audience will listen to, use the larger numbers. For instance, 1,000,000 per day is a whole bunch of somethings per day.