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

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      Not to go all Ameri-centric, but American news organization (CBS) and American government site (.gov).

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        I think it would be a good policy to always mention the country in the title (or tag it or wharever). Though yeah, not a mystery which one they’re talking about here lol

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    4 whole tests to last for months, potentially years. I wish for once the US didnt half ass literally anything positive.

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      Yeah, In Canada you can just grab a free box of 5 whenever you want. And when I had Covid I went through 14 tests before I started showing negative.

      The US is ass backwards on this one.

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      For the better part of a year or two the Fed was requiring insurance companies to reimburse people for tests they bought, up to 8 a month. It was a pain in the ass, but my wife and I were testing weekly for free back in late 2021.

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      That’s awesome! We need more monitoring. It’s the only way we’ll know what is actually going on. There’s a lot to be said for testing sewage effluent, and not every state can afford that.

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

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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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      As the other comment said, yes they have expiration dates. However many have been extended so check before throwing them out. Some that I got around the time the program first started (I think) aren’t due to expire until next March, so yours may very well still be good depending when you got them.

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      Though of course not as scary anymore and not in the news as much, it’s still around. Not that many people care where I live, I think most are “over it”