free covid tests

[redbird]

The US federal program that mails out free covid tests is being suspended [sic] on September 2nd. If you live in the US and haven't already ordered those tests, you should probably do so now: https://special.usps.com/testkits

In my experience, the free tests took a couple of weeks to arrive once ordered. The ones they sent me a few months ago were the same BinaxNow tests I've been getting at the drugstore.

There's a limit on how many tests they'll send you, and it is per household, defined as per residential address. Unrelated roommates count as one household, and if you moved after ordering tests, you may be eligible for more, if the previous residents didn't order tests through this program.

Comments

[cmcmck]

They dropped the freebies here some time since.

[dewline]

Disturbing prospect, that discontinuation!

[dewline]

Still in effect here in Ontario.

[pameladean]

I'm so uselessly curious about how they decide what brand of tests to send. We have gotten either iHealth, Roche, or Siemens. It is nice that Roche and Siemens have a little holder for the tube of extraction solution, but it is light as a feather and entirely transparent, so keeping track of it through the use of four tests is a challenge. I'm grateful that the cats don't think it's a toy, at least.

P.