The search for COVID vaccines, tests and treatments could get easier Wednesday with the White House launch a website meant to be a one-stop shop for everything from free high quality masks to antiviral pills.
A person walks past a COVID-19 testing location in Arlington, Va., on March 16. A new website launched by the Biden administration will provide a locater for test-and-treat facilities, among other services.The search for COVID vaccines, tests and treatments could get easier Wednesday with the White House launch of, a website meant to be a one-stop shop for everything from free high quality masks to antiviral pills.
The antiviral pills, especially Paxlovid from Pfizer, are highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death among people who are at high risk of severe disease from COVID infection. But they have to be taken within the first five days of the onset of symptoms. There's been a disconnect between people getting diagnosed and actually getting these life-saving medications.
"The communities statistically most likely to need the services that are to be offered on the website are also the communities that are statistically most unlikely to be able to access it," Adams added."In other words, this could actually increase inequity." But, Zients added that if Congress doesn't come through with the additional COVID relief funds the White House has been asking for, these tools may not be there when people really need them. At the moment, with COVID case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths are all on the decline, there are plenty of rapid tests. And antiviral pills, which had been scarce, are plentiful now, too. But that's largely thanks to government purchasing contracts.
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