Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.
to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.
Testing will become more important with mask requirements now easing, 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.
President Joe Biden's pivot to testing came under duress 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. "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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