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I just ordered eight more free covid tests from the US government. We're also entitled to free tests at the pharmacy (paid for by our health insurance company), because the federal ones come in the mail (free shipping), and the others would require going to the drugstore, and possibly waiting in line.
To order free tests if you live in the US: https://special.usps.com/testkits. That's eight per household (the previous rounds offered four per household), and you don't have to have health insurance. (You do have to live in the US, at an address the post office can find.)
I know that Massachusetts health insurance companies are required to cover eight tests per month, per person with insurance, but I don't know what the rules are in other states.
I want to have enough of these on hand that I can test because of things like a cough that I'm pretty sure is a remnant of being sick last year, but I've used the inhaler twice since lunchtime. (This happened yesterday, so I used a rapid test, which was unsurprisingly, and reassuringly, negative.)
To order free tests if you live in the US: https://special.usps.com/testkits. That's eight per household (the previous rounds offered four per household), and you don't have to have health insurance. (You do have to live in the US, at an address the post office can find.)
I know that Massachusetts health insurance companies are required to cover eight tests per month, per person with insurance, but I don't know what the rules are in other states.
I want to have enough of these on hand that I can test because of things like a cough that I'm pretty sure is a remnant of being sick last year, but I've used the inhaler twice since lunchtime. (This happened yesterday, so I used a rapid test, which was unsurprisingly, and reassuringly, negative.)
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