On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, the government website COVIDtests.gov received 45 million orders.
received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid tests per household, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.
Wen says people still need a guide for when to test and how often. “Right now it is still unclear,” she said. as the omicron variant gained force just before Christmas. Tests were frustratingly hard to come by, and expensive. The White House is sensitive to criticism that help may have come too late.
The White House enlisted the Pentagon and parts of the Health and Human Services Department that had worked on the Trump administration’s vaccine development effort to distribute vaccines. Logistics experts scoured the globe for available tests. The Postal Service was designated to take the orders and deliver them.
The project took less than a month to get ready, Manning said. “We said this is not online retail,” he said. “This is emergency response, so we have go to as fast as possible.”
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