President Biden is set to announce on Thursday that private health insurance plans will soon reimburse people who buy over-the-counter at-home rapid tests for COVID-19 — one of a series of steps the White House is planning to encourage better detection and prevention of COVID this winter.
“The bottom line is we are really pulling out all the stops to get Americans the maximum protection as we head into the winter months and as we face this new [omicron] variant,” Natalie Quillian, the deputy White House COVID response coordinator, told NPR in an interview.
Biden is set to outline his new plan at 1:40 p.m. ET at the National Institutes of Health the day after the first U.S. case of the omicron variant was discovered in California. Officials are concerned the variant could spread more easily than previous strains.
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