If everyone age 11 and over gets an at-home COVID-19 test twice a week, the U.S. would need 2.3 billion monthly tests, according to KFF, a nonprofit that researches national health issues.
President Joe Biden wants to make at-home COVID-19 testing kits widely available — and free — this winter as the omicron variant emerges in a re-opening economy.
Prices for home testing kits typically range from $7 per test to $38.99 per test, according to KFF, a nonprofit that researches national health issues. Paying for these tests on a regular basis could be cost-prohibitive for many people, even if a reimbursement check is coming later. Putting money aside, will there be enough at-home testing kits to go around at a time when the supply chain is being strained so many ways? Even if companies churn out 300 million test kits every month, that’s fewer than one test kit each month for every person in the U.S., KFF noted.
“More than 150 million Americans on private health insurance will be able to submit receipts for at-home tests directly to their health insurance plans, so they can go to their local pharmacy, they can order online, and then get reimbursed,” he said, adding that free tests for people without private insurance would become available starting this month.
The plans for expanded at-home testing do not appear to be changing that workplace screening requirement, Dawson said. Are there enough at- home COVID-19 testing kits? The White House says the country now has four times the amount of tests it had by late summer. Supplies have seemed to improve, Schneider said. Still, he added, “I don’t think manufacturers are producing the millions of tests you would need to have widespread use.”
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