comfortablyglumFree COVID test kits are coming back. Here's how to get them.
“Four free tests will be available for each household to request through the government’s COVIDTests.gov portal beginning on Monday, Sept. 25.”
ForestOrcaThat's awesome! We need more monitoring. It's the only way we'll know what is actually going on. There's a lot to be said for testing sewage effluent, and not every state can afford that.
I hope they don’t give out expired tests again. The last batch of tests I received early this year were all expired.
radixOnly time I got them, it took two weeks to arrive (making it useless to test if you think you had symptoms), and expired in a month (making it almost useless to keep on hand ‘just in case’).
For the specific use case of going on a pre-planned trip and making sure you’re healthy just before leaving? Great. But that’s now how the program was presented to the end users.
What? Ever since they were widely available and free, the idea is to keep a supply of them at the ready so you can test any time you’re feeling symptomatic.
If they’re about to expire that kind of defeats the purpose of having them ready tho
AesculapiusMost tests had their expiration dates extended.
iAmTheTotMight be worth saying what country this is for. In Canada, they never went away.
Theres not a single person here that didnt know this was the US given how specific the number of tests were. Any other country would have done something sensible.
Your approach to unambiguous and clear information dissemination is intriguing.
Not to go all Ameri-centric, but American news organization (CBS) and American government site (.gov).
I think it would be a good policy to always mention the country in the title (or tag it or wharever). Though yeah, not a mystery which one they’re talking about here lol
4 whole tests to last for months, potentially years. I waish for once the US didnt half ass literally anything positive.
For the better part of a year or two the Fed was requiring insurance companies to reimburse people for tests they bought, up to 8 a month. It was a pain in the ass, but my wife and I were testing weekly for free back in late 2021.
Why were you testing weekly? Had the flu for a while?
Covid is often asymptomatic but can still spread to others.
Yeah, In Canada you can just grab a free box of 5 whenever you want. And when I had Covid I went through 14 tests before I started showing negative.
The US is ass backwards on this one.
Some old tests are still considered good. Check this list to see if any of your old tests are still good.
BigDaddySlimLooks like my package volume is about to skyrocket again
You lot still dealing with COVID?
Though of course not as scary anymore and not in the news as much, it’s still around. Not that many people care where I live, I think most are “over it”
Do these things go bad? I got some a while ago but I’ve never tested for COVID
Yes. They should have expiration dates on them. I think they’re good for roughly a year or two.
edgemaster72As the other comment said, yes they have expiration dates. However many have been extended so check before throwing them out. Some that I got around the time the program first started (I think) aren’t due to expire until next March, so yours may very well still be good depending when you got them.
never used any of those I got before - but I guess better to have them and not need them than the reverse.