Biden announces new free testing program......but
How will Biden’s COVID-19 test giveaway work?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. But despite the high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped.
The administration is still working on details for how the program will work
How will Biden's COVID-19 test giveaway work?
One small problem, he said this two months ago:
Biden rejected an October proposal for ‘free rapid tests for the holidays’…
The plan, in effect, was a blueprint for how to avoid what is happening at this very moment—endless lines of desperate Americans clamoring for tests in order to safeguard holiday gatherings, just as COVID-19 is exploding again. Yesterday, President Biden told David Muir of ABC News, “I wish I had thought about ordering” 500 million at-home tests “two months ago.” But the proposal shared at the meeting in October, disclosed here for the first time, included a “Bold Plan for Impact” and a provision for “Every American Household to Receive Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays/New Year.”
The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”