The White House has announced another additional for the ongoing Covid-19 response, this time it states that the US will expand public access to free testing. This effort will include, starting next month, providing half a billion Covid-19 tests at home for free. This new offer will join another method intended to help overcome the pandemic and its impact on the nation.

Free in-house testing began in January

The Biden government announced a series of new expansion and additions for the steps of government support in the country, which aims to help the state and regional government deal with new case outbreaks, and other major disorders caused by pandemics. This new addition arrives only hours after the CDC publishes new data that shows Omicron now is the dominant variant circulating in the US.

According to the White House, the free Covid-19 test will be sent starting in January; The website will soon be available for the public to request a test.

Outside of this test, Administration said that the new Covid-19 Federal Test Site will soon be starting to emerge around the US. These goals are intended to help countries see large cases and those who need to help meet the demands of testing. The test will be produced faster, also, continuously using defense production laws.

The White House also looked into the future when it comes to vaccination capacity, stating that President Biden will soon carry out other announcements, which are related to expanding the ability for people throughout the US to get shots. At this time, there are around 90,000 vaccination locations throughout the country, including several open to walk-in visitors and pop-up clinics.

Some other changes were announced today, including those who will involve the revision of the Preparation Act Declaration. With this, the White House said the bigger “flexibility” would be possible when it came to the pharmaceutical internship and pharmacists provided a variety of vaccine shooting to the state line. Undering the potential severity of this disease, administration revealed the government will continue to exert more ventilators to hospitals in the US, especially those who struggle to compensate for demand.