The Biden administration has relaunched its free COVID-19 testing program, allowing U.S. households to order at-home rapid antigen tests at no cost.
The taxpayer-funded program that paused in March resumed on Sept. 26, according to Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“I am pleased to announce that we reopened the free COVID-19 test program today,” O’Connell said in a statement on X. She added that over 900 million tests have been distributed over the course of the lifetime of the program, which was first launched in early 2022….
