COVID.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests.
We need you healthy and in the know. COVID.gov is a website where you can once again get FREE COVID tests from the government. The Department of Health and Human Services will allow you to place orders at COVIDTests.gov starting on Monday, September 25th. The tests will be at no cost and delivered for free by the United States Postal Service. This was announced by the Biden Administration on Wednesday in an effort to get in front of spreading COVID and its new variants.
“Whether or not people are done with it, we know the virus is there, we know that it’s circulating. We know, if past is prologue, it’ll circulate to a higher degree and spread, and cases will go up in the fall and winter seasons,” O’Connell said. “Anticipating that would be true again, or something similar, we want to make sure the American people have these tools.”
Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS, said that though some portions of the public may be tired of the pandemic and its implications, at-home-testing remains a keyway to slow the spread of new cases. The website will remain functional to receive orders through the holidays and “we reserve the right to keep it open even longer if we’re starting to see an increase in cases.”
Let's do our part by ordering tests, thoroughly washing our hands, etc... Here are some helpful tips from the CDC.
