Biden Administration To Invest Another $1B In COVID-19 At-Home Tests: CNN

The White House will invest another $1 billion to boost supplies of COVID-19 at-home tests, CNN reports.
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A White House official said the U.S. will announce a $1 billion investment, which will go toward the "purchase of rapid at-home Covid tests to mobilize our testing manufacturers further to bring more to market."
In September, President Joe Biden announced a $2 billion investment in rapid testing for community health centers, food banks, and schools.
The president also announced that retailers including Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger would sell at-home rapid test kits at cost for the next three months.
The official said that the U.S. had produced about 30 million tests per month in recent months, expected to accelerate to 200 million tests per month starting in December.
The administration will also double the government's free testing program to include 20,000 local pharmacies.
"With these pharmacy sites added to the thousands of community-based free testing sites, in total, there will be 30,000 free testing sites," the official said.
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