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in February over delivery delays for the first round of free COVID tests. The Postal Service said tests were supposed to be shipped within seven to 12 days after being ordered, but according to NPR, some tests were not sent out within this window because of a manufacturing delay. But officials say that this won't be the case with the next shipments."As we open up this second round, we are going to be shipping immediately," Inglesby told the news outlet."We have a fairly substantial stock of new tests ready to be shipped, so we expect orders to be delivered quickly."More than half of U.S. households ordered tests in January and February of this year, as reported by NPR.
But the program was created when the coronavirus was a much more prevalent problem—fueled by the heightened spread of the Omicron variant in late 2021 and early 2022—and tests were harder to come by. Case numbers have dropped significantly since then, falling by more than 28 percent inThe Biden Administration is not planning to pull back the program, however.
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