Updated September 2024: You can now order another round of at-home COVID tests, this time 4 tests per household. Order via this US Postal Service website. Shipping is free. Details from site:
As of late September 2024, residential households in the U.S. are eligible for another order of #4 free at-home tests from USPS.com.
Here’s what you need to know about your order:
– Each order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests (COVIDTests.gov has more details about at-home tests, including extended shelf life and updated expiration dates)
– Orders will ship free, starting September 30, 2024
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Great use of taxpayer dollars!
I agree. It should be as easy as possible to get tests to find out if you have COVID-19 to keep from infecting others.
We had a family gathering in December and were lucky to have our guests do a quick test before the gathering … so the person who tested positive did not infect others.
That was sarcasm! Testing does not work for Omicron. It may have worked for Alpha/Beta and Delta/Eplison, but Omicron is too infectious. This is now effectively the flu. It is not a question of IF you will get it, but WHEN you will get it. Since age is the biggest risk factor and no one is getting younger, there is no time like the present.
It is sarcasm that doesn’t work. Tests work, masks work, ventilation works. We need to use all the tools.
As for getting infected, no thank you. There is no long lasting immunity so you will be infected over and over again. Each time there is opportunity for damage to many body systems and parts – cardiovascular, immune, metabolic, kidneys, liver, brain… We will be living in a world of increasingly disabled people. Sounds like something to avoid like the plague.
Testing doesn’t work? So if someone takes a test and comes up positive and as a result decides against going to a large gathering that they were otherwise planning to attend–that doesn’t reduce exposures and cases??? I would argue the opposite, particularly since it is “too contagious.”
Agreed; it is good to see action being taken by the federal government to address the spread and the scarcity with tests.
That was sarcasm! Testing does not work for Omicron. It may have worked for Alpha/Beta and Delta/Eplison, but Omicron is too infectious. This is now effectively the flu. It is not a question of IF you will get it, but WHEN you will get it. Since age is the biggest risk factor and no one is getting younger, there is no time like the present.
No time like the present to get Omicron? Wow. I don’t want the flu either.
Good post Jonathan
Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you, Jonathan.