The federal government is suspending the shipment of free, at-home COVID-19 tests Friday, with a message on the ordering site noting “Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of tests.”
“The federal government needs to respond. This is really nationwide. This is just an example of the dysfunctionality we have at Congress at the federal level,” said Thomas Denny, a Professor and Chief Operating Officer at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.
The announcement comes just before the Labor Day holiday, and as schools largely return to full, in-person classes.
“Testing has been a challenge for us through this whole pandemic. Ad now you have a lot of people coming back together again – schools, people coming off of vacation, being close together, traveling, I’d be surprised if we didn’t see an uptick in some infections. It doesn’t mean that we’re going back to where we were in 2020. But again, the lack of vaccination coverage in some individuals makes …