Biden announces purchase of 500 million more at-home COVID tests : NPR

President Joe Biden speaks concerning the authorities’s COVID-19 response within the Eisenhower Govt Workplace Constructing on Jan. 13, 2022.

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President Joe Biden speaks concerning the authorities’s COVID-19 response within the Eisenhower Govt Workplace Constructing on Jan. 13, 2022.

Andrew Harnik/AP

President Biden introduced Thursday that the administration shall be purchase one other 500 million at-home COVID-19 assessments for Individuals, along with the 500 million already being procured. An internet site will launch subsequent week so Individuals can order the free assessments, Biden introduced.

He additionally mentioned the White Home will make high-quality masks obtainable totally free, with particulars popping out subsequent week.

Biden additionally mentioned six new federal medical groups shall be dispatched to help overwhelmed hospitals in six states, “serving to to decompress overwhelmed emergency departments, and releasing up healthcare suppliers to proceed different lifesaving care,” in keeping with a White Home assertion.

The medical groups are being despatched to the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio; Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn; Rhode Island Hospital in Windfall; Henry Ford Hospital simply exterior Detroit; College of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque; and College Hospital in Newark, N.J.