U.S. Cuts $231 Million Deal To Provide 15-Minute COVID-19 At-Home Tests
3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. Cuts $231 Million Deal To Provide 15-Minute COVID-19 At-Home Tests

NPR  

U.S. Cuts $231 Million Deal To Provide 15-Minute COVID-19 At-Home Tests YouTube Enlarge this image toggle caption Ellume Limited Ellume Limited Updated 5:30 p.m. ET The Biden administration has made a $231.8 million deal with an Australian company to boost availability of the first at-home rapid test for the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 that is available without a prescription. Suzanne Sterns, a spokesperson for Ellume, told NPR the company "will be delivering 100,000 tests per month from the Australian manufacturing facility until the U.S. facility is built. Sponsor Message It's important for federal, state and local governments to help make coronavirus tests more affordable, Slavitt said, adding that "life doesn't change" until tests and vaccines become ubiquitous.

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Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — On the heels of a summer wave of COVID-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September. U.S. households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens, according to the website, COVIDtests.gov. The announcement also comes as the …

More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail
1 year, 1 month ago

More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online for home delivery. The U.S. government is offering to send another round of four at-home virus tests ahead of the typical surge in cases during the winter holiday season. The new release of free COVID-19 nasal swab tests also comes ahead of the first winter since the pandemic started that …

Free COVID-19 home tests are back for US households, Here's how to order yours online
1 year, 3 months ago

Free COVID-19 home tests are back for US households, Here's how to order yours online

Hindustan Times  

The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it will resume a program that offers free Covid-19 home tests to Americans. The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household. …

Biden government to deliver free COVID tests again to US households
1 year, 3 months ago

Biden government to deliver free COVID tests again to US households

Live Mint  

The US Department of Health and Human Services said on September 20 that it will deliver COVID-19 tests for free to households across the country, reported Reuters. The health agency said that starting from September 25, households will again have the option to request four free tests via COVIDTests.gov. The HHS further said that these tests are designed to identify …

Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests and will reopen website to order them
1 year, 3 months ago

Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests and will reopen website to order them

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 …

Covid-19: US households will be able to order more free tests starting Monday
1 year, 3 months ago

Covid-19: US households will be able to order more free tests starting Monday

CNN  

CNN — The US government will relaunch a program to provide free Covid-19 home tests to Americans, US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. Becerra said HHS’s Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response “has been resupplying our stockpile.” The tests coming available soon are intended for use through the end of 2023 and will include instructions on how …

U.S. announces $600 million to produce COVID tests and will reopen website for orders
1 year, 3 months ago

U.S. announces $600 million to produce COVID tests and will reopen website for orders

LA Times  

The Biden administration is providing $600 million to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is resurrecting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household. The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up …

Free rapid tests available again in preparation for possible winter COVID surge
2 years ago

Free rapid tests available again in preparation for possible winter COVID surge

LA Times  

The Biden administration is making free coronavirus tests available to U.S. households again. The Biden administration is again making free coronavirus tests available to all U.S. households as it unveils contingency plans for potential COVID-19 surges this winter. After a three-month hiatus, the administration Thursday began making four rapid tests available to all American households through covidtests.gov, said a senior …

Free at-home COVID tests, delivered by mail, ending this week
2 years, 4 months ago

Free at-home COVID tests, delivered by mail, ending this week

LA Times  

Boxes of iHealth COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits, provided by the state of California, are ready for parents to pick up at Tulita Elementary School in Redondo Beach on Jan. 6. Suspending the offering, which the COVID.gov website says is “because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile,” will remove one convenient testing option even as federal …

60 million households have requested free Covid-19 rapid tests, White House says
2 years, 11 months ago

60 million households have requested free Covid-19 rapid tests, White House says

CNN  

CNN — The White House said on Friday some 60 million households have requested free Covid-19 rapid tests so far, with tens of millions tests having “gone out the door” as part of the Biden administration’s program to mail more than half a billion rapid tests to Americans around the country. White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told …

US begins offering 1B free COVID tests, but many more needed
2 years, 11 months ago

US begins offering 1B free COVID tests, but many more needed

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — For the first time, people across the U.S. can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests. “The playbook for rapid tests should look exactly like the playbook for vaccines,” said Zoe McLaren, a health economist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. While private companies are now producing more than 250 million at-home …

US Begins Offering Free Covid-19 Test Kits, but Doubts Persist
2 years, 11 months ago

US Begins Offering Free Covid-19 Test Kits, but Doubts Persist

News 18  

For the first time, all Americans can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests. While private companies are now producing more than 250 million at-home tests per month, that is still not enough to allow most Americans to frequently test themselves. The U.S. would need 2.3 billion tests per month for all teens and adults …

US launches website to provide free at-home COVID tests
2 years, 11 months ago

US launches website to provide free at-home COVID tests

Al Jazeera  

With a new website, launched one day ahead of the official date, Americans can order up to four free test kits per household. People in the United States can now order free COVID-19 test kits online, as the White House moves to boost testing capacity amid a surge in coronavirus infections linked to the Omicron variant. The programme initially will …

More free rapid COVID tests are coming. Here’s what we know so far
2 years, 11 months ago

More free rapid COVID tests are coming. Here’s what we know so far

LA Times  

Abbott Laboratories’ BinaxNOW is one of at least 14 at-home antigen COVID-19 tests authorized for over-the-counter sale by the Food and Drug Administration. The Biden administration announced Monday that insurers will be required to cover the cost of rapid home COVID tests for their customers, starting Saturday. People with insurance can also order free test kits from COVIDTests.gov, the administration …

Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday
2 years, 11 months ago

Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday

LA Times  

A worker picks up two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event in Youngstown, Ohio, on Dec. 30. Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. “By requiring private health plans to cover people’s at-home tests, we are further expanding …

EXPLAINER: Where are the COVID-19 tests that Biden promised?
3 years ago

EXPLAINER: Where are the COVID-19 tests that Biden promised?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free to people to use at home. The federal government is expected to get delivery of the first batch of tests “over the next week or so,” according to White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients. “We’re …

Why are rapid tests for COVID-19 in such short supply?
3 years ago

Why are rapid tests for COVID-19 in such short supply?

LA Times  

Boxes of BinaxNow home COVID-19 tests made by Abbott are shown for sale in November at a CVS store in Lakewood, Wash. Is that tickle in your nose COVID-19, or just a cold? Abbott Laboratories, which makes the BinaxNOW rapid antigen test, expects to produce 70 million tests this month and is working to raise that to 100 million, said …

Biden administration signs first contract for free rapid Covid-19 test distribution
3 years ago

Biden administration signs first contract for free rapid Covid-19 test distribution

CNN  

CNN — The Biden administration has signed its first contracts with a Covid-19 test manufacturer as part of President Joe Biden’s efforts to distribute half a billion free rapid tests throughout the country, a White House official confirms to CNN. The Department of Defense awarded a $51 million contract to Goldbelt Security, LLC, “for delivery of over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits.” …

Finding a Covid-19 test is a struggle right now in the US as Omicron and holiday plans collide
3 years ago

Finding a Covid-19 test is a struggle right now in the US as Omicron and holiday plans collide

CNN  

CNN — With coronavirus cases surging once again, frustrated Americans are struggling to get tested days before Christmas as long lines and increased demand overwhelm some facilities across the country. People who have been previously infected with Covid-19 and remain unvaccinated “should not assume that have protection against Omicron,” US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Tuesday. As to whether …

Biden pivots to home tests to confront omicron surge
3 years ago

Biden pivots to home tests to confront omicron surge

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts. He noted that former President Donald Trump has gotten his booster shot, and he said it’s Americans’ “patriotic duty” to get vaccinated. White House …

Covid-19 tests get harder to find as omicron variant spreads
3 years ago

Covid-19 tests get harder to find as omicron variant spreads

Live Mint  

Waiting times for Covid-19 tests are growing in parts of the U.S. as concerns over the Omicron variant, new infections and the coming holidays drive up demand. Many laboratories are still processing tests within a day or two and have the capacity to meet the heightened demand, said lab operators and pharmacies. Officials in New York City, where lines stretched …

Biden's new winter COVID plan will reimburse you for at-home tests
3 years, 1 month ago

Biden's new winter COVID plan will reimburse you for at-home tests

NPR  

Biden's new winter COVID plan will reimburse you for at-home tests Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP President Biden announced Thursday that private health insurance plans will soon reimburse people who buy over-the-counter, at-home rapid tests for the coronavirus — one of a series of steps the White House is planning in order to encourage better detection …

New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing -- the holiday season
3 years, 1 month ago

New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing -- the holiday season

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Millions more home tests for COVID-19 are hitting store shelves, but will there be enough for Americans hoping to screen themselves before holiday gatherings? White House officials say the U.S. is on pace to have about 200 million home tests per month by December, quadrupling the number from this summer. Market leader Abbott says it is back to …

US falls behind on at-home Covid tests
3 years, 2 months ago

US falls behind on at-home Covid tests

CNN  

This is the weekly edition of CNN’s coronavirus newsletter. The National Institutes of Health’s $70 million pledge, announced last week, promises to get more tests onto the market by identifying and encouraging new manufacturers and easing the obstacles in getting the tests approved. A vast, international review of studies published in March found that few antigen tests met the World …

US commits $1 billion access to rapid, at-home Covid tests
3 years, 3 months ago

US commits $1 billion access to rapid, at-home Covid tests

India TV News  

The White House has announced an investment worth $1 billion worth for rapid, at-home coronavirus tests to address ongoing shortages. The move will quadruple the number of tests available to Americans by December, Jeff Zients, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, was quoted as saying at a press briefing on Wednesday. "That means, we'll have an available supply of 200 …

The White House will spend an additional $1 billion on rapid at-home COVID tests
3 years, 3 months ago

The White House will spend an additional $1 billion on rapid at-home COVID tests

NPR  

The White House will spend an additional $1 billion on rapid at-home COVID tests Enlarge this image toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP Ted S. Warren/AP The White House is allocating an additional $1 billion to purchase millions of rapid at-home tests for COVID-19, in response to an ongoing national shortage of these tests. Zients said that Wednesday's action now puts …

What are at-home COVID-19 tests and why are they in such high demand overseas?
3 years, 11 months ago

What are at-home COVID-19 tests and why are they in such high demand overseas?

ABC  

Brisbane-based bio-tech firm Ellume has just landed a $302 million contract with the United States to ramp up production of at-home COVID-19 tests. The kit comes with instructions for people to swab themselves and it is far less invasive than the so-called "brain tickler" — deep nasal swabs carried out at established COVID-19 testing clinics. Unlike the US, Australia has …

US grants $302 million contract to Brisbane bio-tech firm Ellume to produce at-home COVID tests
3 years, 11 months ago

US grants $302 million contract to Brisbane bio-tech firm Ellume to produce at-home COVID tests

ABC  

The United States Department of Defense has awarded a contract worth $US230 million to Brisbane-based biotech firm Ellume to ramp up production of its COVID-19 home test kits. Key points: The at-home tests are designed to detect fragments of the virus from a nasal swab It can be performed in 15 minutes with results reported via a smartphone app The …

Coronavirus Ellume at-home test developed in Brisbane approved for emergency use in US
4 years ago

Coronavirus Ellume at-home test developed in Brisbane approved for emergency use in US

ABC  

A new at-home coronavirus test, developed by a Brisbane company, has been approved for emergency use in the United States. Key points: The new at-home quick test was produced by a Brisbane company The US FDA approved it for emergency use, allowing it to be sold over the counter in pharmacies Another Queensland-based team has helped produced a COVID-19 app …

FDA allows use of over-the-counter home test for COVID-19
4 years ago

FDA allows use of over-the-counter home test for COVID-19

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The first home test for …

Over-the-counter COVID-19 test will soon be available in U.S.
4 years ago

Over-the-counter COVID-19 test will soon be available in U.S.

LA Times  

The first home test for COVID-19 that doesn’t require a prescription will soon be on U.S. store shelves. Regulators granted emergency use for a similar home test last month, but that one needs a doctor’s prescription. The agency’s action Tuesday allows for sales in places like drugstores, “where a patient can buy it, swab their nose, run the test and …

Will the US ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy?
4 years, 1 month ago

Will the US ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy?

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy. “If we’d had a more robust approach and testing was scaled up as one of the tools, I think much of this third surge would have been avoidable,” said Dr. …

Millions More Virus Rapid Tests, But Are Results Reported?
4 years, 2 months ago

Millions More Virus Rapid Tests, But Are Results Reported?

News 18  

After struggling to ramp up coronavirus testing, the U.S. can now screen several million people daily, thanks to a growing supply of rapid tests. But state health officials say many rapid tests are going unreported, which means some new COVID-19 infections may not be counted. The federal government is shipping more than 100 million of the newest rapid tests to …

Covid testing to expand to 80,000 per day by end December; No test center at Schiphol
4 years, 2 months ago

Covid testing to expand to 80,000 per day by end December; No test center at Schiphol

NL Times  

Health service GGD plans to scale up its coronavirus testing capacity significantly in the coming months, aiming for 80 thousand tests per day by the end of this year. Currently the health services are able to do up to 2 thousand such traces per day, much less than the current infection level of over 6 thousand positive tests per day. …

WHO plans to distribute 120 mn rapid COVID-19 test kits to poorer nations at $5 each
4 years, 3 months ago

WHO plans to distribute 120 mn rapid COVID-19 test kits to poorer nations at $5 each

Firstpost  

The quick tests, to be distributed in 133 countries over the next six months, are not the most reliable but are fast, cheap and easy to carry out. Some 120 million rapid tests for Covid-19 will be made available to poorer countries at $5 each, the World Health Organization announced Monday – if it can find the money. The quick …

Donald Trump announces rollout of 150 mn rapid COVID-19 tests; US accounts for over 20% of 1 mn global deaths
4 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump announces rollout of 150 mn rapid COVID-19 tests; US accounts for over 20% of 1 mn global deaths

Firstpost  

One hundred million rapid point-of-care tests will be given to states and territories to support efforts to reopen their economies and schools immediately, said Trump Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to distribute a whopping 150 million 15-minute rapid COVID-19 tests in the coming weeks, a decision he said is aimed at supporting efforts to reopen economies and …

WHO says 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests to be provided to poorer countries
4 years, 3 months ago

WHO says 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests to be provided to poorer countries

The Hindu  

Some 120 million rapid diagnostic tests for coronavirus will be made available to low- and middle-income countries at a maximum of $5 each, the World Health Organization said on Monday. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the manufacturers Abbott and SD Biosensor had agreed with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to “make 120 million of these new, highly …

Rapid Covid tests: Trump announces plan to deploy 150 million Abbott Laboratories tests previously touted
4 years, 3 months ago

Rapid Covid tests: Trump announces plan to deploy 150 million Abbott Laboratories tests previously touted

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump formally announced a plan on Monday to disperse the 150 million rapid coronavirus tests first promoted by the White House in August. Announcing the distribution plan Monday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, Trump claimed the testing effort would “allow every state on a very regular basis test every teacher who needs it.” …

Britain To Invest in Expansion Of Rapid Covid-19 Test Trials Amid Criticism Over Testing Backlog
4 years, 4 months ago

Britain To Invest in Expansion Of Rapid Covid-19 Test Trials Amid Criticism Over Testing Backlog

News 18  

LONDON: Britain on Thursday said it was investing to develop rapid COVID-19 tests, with a view to soon rolling out widespread, systematic testing to pick up outbreaks early, amid criticism over backlogs in its current testing system. The health ministry said it would put 500 million pounds into trials of rapid COVID-19 tests and into population-testing for the disease. Health …

Slight decrease in Covid-19 tests done last week
4 years, 4 months ago

Slight decrease in Covid-19 tests done last week

NL Times  

A total of 98,978 people were tested for the coronavirus by municipal health service GGD between August 3 and 9, compared to over 100 thousand tests in the week before. The GGD health services therefore sounded the alarm and called on Netherlands residents to have themselves tested if they have any symptoms that could indicate Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused …

US health officials: 20 million Americans may have had COVID-19
4 years, 6 months ago

US health officials: 20 million Americans may have had COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Many infections were not caught in early testing when supplies were limited and testing was prioritised on symptoms. That is nearly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed and comes as the Trump administration works to tamp down nationwide concern about the COVID-19 pandemic as about a dozen states are seeing a worrisome …

States finally have high-speed machines to detect Covid-19 – but few tests to run on them
4 years, 8 months ago

States finally have high-speed machines to detect Covid-19 – but few tests to run on them

CNN  

CNN — As he unboxed a toaster-size device made by Abbott Laboratories at a Rose Garden press conference last month, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the company’s rapid coronavirus test – which takes minutes instead of days to return results – would be “a whole new ballgame” in expanding testing for the disease. “They tell us vague platitudes about getting …

Los Angeles Authorities Sue Company For 'Illegally Selling' At-Home COVID-19 Test
4 years, 9 months ago

Los Angeles Authorities Sue Company For 'Illegally Selling' At-Home COVID-19 Test

NPR  

Los Angeles Authorities Sue Company For 'Illegally Selling' At-Home COVID-19 Test Enlarge this image toggle caption Christopher Weber/AP Christopher Weber/AP Mike Feuer, the city attorney of Los Angeles, announced on Monday that his office had "filed a civil law enforcement action against, and achieved an immediate settlement with," a company that had been "illegally selling" an at-home test for the …

No COVID-19 testing at home yet but quicker options coming
4 years, 9 months ago

No COVID-19 testing at home yet but quicker options coming

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Home testing for the new coronavirus may sound like a good idea, but U.S. regulators say it’s still too risky. “Essentially all of the reactions are squeezed into a little cartridge, so it’s a very nice, self-contained system.” said Dr. Bobbi Pritt, lab director at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota The cartridges from Abbott and other companies …

Coronavirus testing: Documents show backlog of 160,000 tests at just one lab company
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus testing: Documents show backlog of 160,000 tests at just one lab company

CNN  

CNN — As the US health care system has scrambled to track the spread of coronavirus, one of the nation’s largest commercial labs has faced a backlog of tests that ballooned in the last two weeks, and has delayed results in some cases up to 10 days. “So that when you identify someone who’s infected, that person doesn’t go out …

Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test

The Independent  

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Coronavirus testing: US approves rapid test that can detect in 45 minutes
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus testing: US approves rapid test that can detect in 45 minutes

Live Mint  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid coronavirus diagnostic test, with a detection time of about 45 minutes, as the United States struggles to meet the demand for coronavirus testing. The test's developer, California-based molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, said on Saturday it had received an emergency use authorization from the FDA for the test, which will …

Coronavirus testing hits another snag as labs need emergency funding to meet high demand
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus testing hits another snag as labs need emergency funding to meet high demand

LA Times  

Roper St. Francis Healthcare employee Raeanne Castillo, right, gives specimen collection kits to a LabCorp worker at the hospital’s office in North Charleston, S.C. One week after the Trump administration promised a massive expansion of free coronavirus testing, the commercial labs tasked with the effort say they need emergency funding to meet rapidly increasing demand, marking the latest snag in …

Where are the tests? (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

Where are the tests? (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Dwayne Briening, MD, is the Executive Director of Northwell Health Labs. There are only a relative few public health facilities – less than 100 at the moment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – around the country that have been approved to perform the tests, including Northwell Health Labs, one of the nation’s largest hospital …

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