WH reveals winter COVID-19 plans, more free tests
The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter. "We pause the program, you know, at the end of the summer, because we wanted to make sure that we still had supply for a winter, a potential increase of cases in the winter," said White House COVID-19 ResponsE Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. "While we took a lot of the resources we had for tests to purchase vaccines and treatments, we still had some resources left. We didn't use deplete the whole supply. And so we had money in the American rescue plan to still be able to buy some more tests. That combination has allowed us to do this. It is on a limited basis. We're not going to able to keep this open forever." After a three-month hiatus, the administration is making four rapid virus tests available per household through the website covidtests.gov starting Thursday.
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