Posted on 12/15/2022 7:13:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is again making some free COVID-19 tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils its contingency plans for potential coronavirus surges this winter.
After a three-month hiatus, the administration is making four rapid virus tests available through covidtests.gov starting Thursday, a senior administration official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the program. COVID-19 cases have shown a marked increase after the Thanksgiving holiday, and further increases are projected from indoor gathering and travel around Christmas and New Year’s.
The administration is putting personnel and equipment on standby should they be needed to help overwhelmed hospitals and nursing homes, as was necessary in earlier waves of the virus. So far, there have been no requests for assistance, but surge teams, ventilators and personal protective equipment are ready, the official said.
The Biden administration is also urging states and local governments to do more to encourage people to get the updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, which scientists say are more effective at protecting against serious illness and death from the currently circulating variants. The administration is reiterating best practices to nursing homes and long-term care facilities for virus prevention and treatment and is urging administrators as well as governments to encourage vulnerable populations to get the new shots.
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I’m sure we have warehouses full of this crap...my last FREE batch I threw out because of date. They have kits free at our library here in upstate NY.
Just like the shots, this time people will avoid this BS in droves.
#PUREBLOOD
A govt. issued testing kit where everybody tests positive. Trust your govt? Ask an Indian.
Oh goody, more free tests.
I’ll bet Larry Hogan, failed RINO of Maryland can get his Korean wife to ask her Korean uncle to secretly fly a few hundred thousand unapproved tests at taxpayer expense and not approved by Congress to Maryland where they will disappear into a guarded warehouse never to be seen again.
His Korean wife will get another major award from the Korean Government.
Yea, that already happened once.
They always tell you what they’re going to do. One wonders what kind of virus they can implant in the hydrogel?
After getting an adverse reaction to the new covid nasal swab that made my nose run constantly for three days I did a little research myself.
It is composed of nanofibers epoxy bonded to a stick and capped off with a cleaning treatment of Ethylene Oxide, which is a known carcinogen. The hydrogel is Porcine. The gel has a distinct odor. The acs article describes every thing with pictures.
https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/video/11310825/What_Are_Swabs_for_Coronavirus_Tests_Made_of/
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04956
After my most recent experience you can bet no one is ever putting a stick in my nose me again. See prior comment.
Intersting info.
If I ever (which I won’t) considered using one of these test kits the first thing I’d check is where it was Manufactured.
I’ve completely disregarded all COVID related news. I’ve never been tested and I’m sure as Hell ain’t getting vaccinated.
WHAT assurances do we have that these ‘tests’ aren’t already contaminated & will show a FALSE POSITIVE???
DID Calif EVER get those masks Newsom paid so much for???
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