“Four free tests will be available for each household to request through the government’s COVIDTests.gov portal beginning on Monday, Sept. 25.”

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I hope they don’t give out expired tests again. The last batch of tests I received early this year were all expired.

    • radix@lemmy.world
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      Only time I got them, it took two weeks to arrive (making it useless to test if you think you had symptoms), and expired in a month (making it almost useless to keep on hand ‘just in case’).

      For the specific use case of going on a pre-planned trip and making sure you’re healthy just before leaving? Great. But that’s now how the program was presented to the end users.

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        What? Ever since they were widely available and free, the idea is to keep a supply of them at the ready so you can test any time you’re feeling symptomatic.

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          If they’re about to expire that kind of defeats the purpose of having them ready tho