The White House says Americans have placed 68 million orders for packages of tests, which leaves about 46% of the stock of tests still available to be ordered.
, say some independent experts. “If infection control is still our priority, testing is central,” said Dr. Leana Wen, a former Baltimore health commissioner and commentator on the pandemic. “Four tests per household for one family will only last you one time. There should be enough tests for families to test twice a week.”Private insurers are now required to cover eight free rapid tests per person, per month. Medicare coverage will start in the spring.
“A critical thing to us was that anything we did had to be done in a way did not create a shortage at retail to the general public,” Manning said. “At the federal level the only people who have a database connected to a fulfillment engine would be the Post Office,” she said. “We prioritized the processing of orders to the highest social vulnerability zip codes in the country,” testing adviser Inglesby said.
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