A new government website includes a locator tool for more than 2,000 sites to access 'test to treat' services for COVID. It's meant to be a one-stop shop for Americans' pandemic needs. | via NPR
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.
With the website launch, the White House is following through on a promise President Biden made in his State of the Union address. In that speech he announced a test-to-treat program"so people can get tested at a pharmacy, and if they're positive, receive antiviral pills on the spot at no cost." Many of the items on this new website have been available elsewhere, like information from the CDC about levels of COVID spread in your community or the form to order free at-home rapid COVID tests. But this puts them all in one place at a time when the White House is trying to move from the crisis phase of the pandemic to a time when it is manageable and not as disruptive as it has been.
Already the White House has had to forgo a new contract for monoclonal antibody treatments and a program to reimburse providers for testing and treating people who are uninsured is winding down.This afternoon President Biden is scheduled to give an update on the country's fight against COVID-19. In addition to drawing attention to the new website, Zients said Biden will"once again issue the urgent call for Congress to act and provide the funding.
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