[Act-ma_discuss] NYT: Free at-home tests are here

[Amy Hendrickson]

Free at-home tests are here


 


The Biden administration's website that allows people to
order up to four free at-home coronavirus tests quietly went
live today - a day in advance of its formal introduction -
and demand already appears to be significant.


There were more than 700,000 visitors on the home page of
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afternoon - more than 20 times as many as at the government
site with the next highest traffic, the U.S. Postal
Service's package-tracking page.

 


I gave the website a test run this afternoon, and ordering
the free tests was quite easy: Visit
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9sb2d5LmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~> Covidtests.gov, click on "Order Free
At-Home Tests" and then enter your name, address and email
address (if you want to track the package) and click "Check
Out Now." The process took under 30 seconds. Orders will
usually be shipped in seven to 12 days, the website says.


At a White House news conference today, the press secretary
Jen Psaki said that the "official launch" was set for
Wednesday morning but that the site had begun taking orders
during what she described as a "beta testing phase."

 


"We can't guarantee there won't be a bug or two," Ms. Psaki
said, "but the best tech teams across the administration and
the Postal Service are working hard to make this a success."

 

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