With COVID-19 again surging in the U.S. because of the omicron variant, the White House will announce on Tuesday several new steps to address the risks posed by the highly contagious variant.
Most notably, the government plans to buy a half-billion at-home COVID test kits and mail them to people who want them, with deliveries beginning in January, a senior administration official told reporters Monday, previewing the speech.
It’s a major step to tackling problems Americans have faced in easily accessing free at-home COVID tests throughout the pandemic.
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