WASHINGTON — With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus speeding across the United States, President Biden will reportedly announce a new plan Tuesday to buy 500 million at-home rapid tests to distribute free to the public — the administration’s biggest investment in rapid testing to date, but one that experts say still won’t make such tests ubiquitous enough to slow the new variant.
The tests will not start to be available until January, according to the New York Times, at which point Americans will be able to order them for home delivery from a government website.
“We’re dealing with a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic that has been very unpredictable,” White House press
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