Biden wants more people to have access to affordable at-home COVID testing

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Biden wants much radical to person entree to affordable at-home COVID testing

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – During an code focused connected the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden said helium wants much Americans to person entree to affordable at-home investigating amid the combat against the surge of the delta variant.

“I’ll usage the Defense Production Act to summation accumulation of accelerated tests, including those that you tin usage astatine home,” Biden said. “While that accumulation is ramping up, my medication has worked with apical retailers similar Walmart, Amazon and Kroger … we’re announcing that nary aboriginal than adjacent week, each of these outlets volition commencement to merchantability at-home accelerated trial kits at-cost for the adjacent 3 months.”

Those terms cuts had already gone into spot Friday astatine Walmart and Amazon.

News4Jax recovered the BinaxNow antigen trial connected Walmart’s website, primitively sold for $23.97, was connected Friday listed astatine $14.

However, the tests were retired of banal online and not disposable for prime up.

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We recovered different astatine location test, the Inteliswab, with a terms chopped arsenic well. Originally $24.99, but listed for $14.

However, it besides was retired of stock.

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The lone tests we recovered disposable to bargain connected Friday was connected Amazon.

It’s an FDA authorized PCR trial postulation kit that promises results successful 24 hours from a lab, listed for $36.99.

The statement indicated this is the at-cost price, saying this trial is “currently priced to summation entree to affordable, high-quality COVID-19 tests.”

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However, if you can’t get your hands connected 1 of these at-home tests close now, Biden says helium volition besides summation access.

“We’ll besides grow — grow escaped investigating astatine 10,000 pharmacies astir the country. And we’ll perpetrate — we’re committing $2 cardinal to acquisition astir 300 cardinal accelerated tests for organisation to assemblage wellness centers, nutrient banks, schools, truthful that each American, nary substance their income, tin entree escaped and convenient tests.”

Outlined details of that program and who is getting those tests person not yet been released.