WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Wednesday that it will spend $1 billion on coronavirus diagnostic tests that can be administered at home and return results within 15 minutes.
That purchase would quadruple the nation’s supply of such tests by December, White House pandemic response team coordinator Jeff Zients said during a Wednesday afternoon coronavirus-related press briefing, so that 200 million rapid tests will be available per month by then.
Zients said that the federal government will distribute the rapid tests it buys to community health centers, food pantries and other institutions.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients at a meeting with President Biden, business leaders and CEOs at the