During his first address to the US Congress, the country’s current president, Joe Biden, officially announced that the same website where Americans can order free coronavirus tests at home will open very soon for the second round of distribution of the corresponding initiative. . Moreover, it will take place next week. Going into details, it should be said that numerous attempts to send free tests to Americans by mail began in mid-January of this year with an initial stock of 500,000,000 pieces.
And despite the obvious fact that this initiative was perhaps the most welcome change, especially given that the agreement between the White House and several retail chains to reduce the costs of these tests has just expired, it was still criticized as “inadequate” . And perhaps the main disadvantage of this company was the restriction of each recipient address to only four tests, which is not enough for some families. And although the official reason for this restriction was not named, it would still be more than logical to assume that it was introduced in order to prevent the rapid and “meaningless” depletion of the national stock of these same tests.
However, if we now refer to recent reports received at the end of last week, about half of these initial half-billions are not currently in demand. Unfortunately, the next round of hands will be a lot like the first. And while Joe Biden did not specifically speak as part of his State of the Union address, covidtests.gov claims that “starting next week, every home in the United States of America will be able to order an additional set of 4 tests.”
By the way, it should be noted that testing for COVID-19 in clinics across the country is still free even for those who do not have insurance. The number of new cases of this virus, by the way, also continues to gradually fall after the winter surge of Omicron, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just updated its recommendations to suggest that most Americans no longer need to wear masks in most cases. At least some companies in the country have already canceled the mask regime.
