Biden administration will start mailing at-home Covid test kits for free to any U.S. household that requests one, senior official says.
The White House is preparing to ship as many as 500 million kits, and it is setting up a website for people to submit their requests, the official said, without specifying how many tests each household can receive or how quickly.
Testing remains one of the biggest challenges for the administration, with long lines forming at testing centers in recent days and at-home rapid tests selling out quickly, public health officials have said. Biden is expected to discuss the threat posed by the omicron variant, warning that a growing number of vaccinated people are likely to get infected in the coming months. In doing so, he will emphasize that data so far indicate that the Covid vaccines protect against severe disease, particularly when they are combined with booster shots.
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