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   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 9/21/23 01:34, useapen wrote:   
   > The Biden administration will once again provide US households with free   
   > at-home COVID-19 tests ahead of the colder fall and winter months.   
      
   	Families with children will probably need these.   
   >   
   > Twelve domestic manufacturers have been awarded $600 million to   
   > manufacture some 200 million new over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, which   
   > will be made available to the public through COVIDTests.gov starting Sept.   
   > 25, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.   
   >   
   > Households may order up to four free tests, which are intended for use   
   > through the end of the year and will detect the currently circulating   
   > variants of the coronavirus.   
   >   
   > “The Biden-Harris Administration, in partnership with domestic   
   > manufacturers, has made great strides in addressing vulnerabilities in the   
   > US supply chain by reducing our reliance on overseas manufacturing,” HHS   
   > Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “These critical investments   
   > will strengthen our nation’s production levels of domestic at-home COVID-   
   > 19 rapid tests and help mitigate the spread of the virus.”   
   >   
   > California-based healthcare products manufacturer iHealth received the   
   > largest amount of federal outlays, $167 million, to produce the new tests.   
   > New Jersey-based Access Bio is receiving the second-largest payment, $88.7   
   > million, as part of the new program.   
   >   
   > Advin, CorDx, Kwell Laboratories and Quidel are the other California-based   
   > companies receiving funding. Azure in Texas,  InBios in Washington, Maxim   
   > Bio in Maryland, OraSure Technologies in Pennsylvania, Sekisui in   
   > Delaware, and Princeton BioMeditech in New Jersey, have also been awarded   
   > millions of dollars by the Biden administration to produce the new COVID   
   > tests.   
   >   
   > “Manufacturing COVID-19 tests in the United States strengthens our   
   > preparedness for the upcoming fall and winter seasons, reduces our   
   > reliance on other countries, and provides good jobs to hardworking   
   > Americans,” Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn   
   > O’Connell said in a statement. “ASPR’s investments in these domestic   
   > manufacturers will increase availability of tests in the future.”   
   >   
   > The Biden administration’s latest initiative follows four previous rounds   
   > of deliveries that provided over 755 million people with COVID tests free   
   > of charge, according to HHS.   
   >   
   > While the COVID-19 public health emergency was officially declared over in   
   > May, public health officials nationwide have started to log a steady   
   > uptick in cases of the virus.   
   >   
   > “As we head into the fall and winter months, and once again see an uptick   
   > in COVID across the State, I urge all New Yorkers to remember that COVID   
   > is a treatable disease, and we now have an updated vaccine that will help   
   > reduce your chance of serious illness and hospitalization. Remember, it’s   
   > about personal protection, personal prevention, and personal wellness,”   
   > New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said   
   > earlier this month.   
   >   
   > Peter Ricay   
   > 6 hours ago   
   >   
   > It was my understanding that the pandemic has been officially declared   
   > over as of May 2023. This  after the pandemic already being over for 6   
   > months when the first shipments of free COVID testing reagent test kits   
   > were shipped in January 2022. Why waste a half a billion dollars on   
   > testing now… because the government already wasted the taxpayers money on   
   > all of these 100’s of millions useless COVID tests in surplus that they   
   > don’t know what to do with, so they plan to litter American mailboxes with   
   > a cruel reminder of just how wasteful our government can be.   
   >   
   > Festus Bro   
   > 6 hours ago   
      
   	The pandemic is over but we are left with endemic Covid.  Last time I   
   checked the case numbers are going up.  Deaths are continuing especially   
   among those who deny Covid and reject Covid vaccinations.   
   Covid-19 antibodies and metabolites are being detected in waste water   
   as sewage is processed.   
   >   
   > Filling American landfills with nasty snotty plastic.  Gives the Post   
   > Office something to do besides collect fake mail-in ballots.   
      
   	What do you think otherwise would go into landfills?   
   	Americans in WW II who had to separate their trash and indulge in metal   
   collections for the war effort and use ration cards while   
   the Polio was running wild every summer laugh at your miserable   
   objections to sensible public health measures.  Also our relatives   
   had to go off and fight many dying in the war.  Of course their   
   are not many of us left who remember when the nation was pretty much   
   united against a Fascist enemy which murdered millions.  Still we   
   think you who object are just silly-billies.  Bliss is working on   
   her 87th year, thank you and remembers her dad's burial in 1939 and   
   Roosevelt's announcement that a State of War existed between the   
   USA and Japan and hence the rest of the Axis powers.  Dad was in WW I.   
      
   >   
   > https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/biden-administration-orders-600m-in-covid-   
   > tests-to-deliver-to-households/   
   	   
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