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    The White House will spend an additional $1 billion on rapid at-home COVID tests

    The investment is a response to an ongoing national shortage and follows a $2 billion investment in September to supply rapid tests to community health centers, food banks and schools.
    by Joe Neel Oct 06, 2021 2 minutes
    A pupil wearing a face mask reads instructions for a coronavirus rapid test kit at the start of a lesson at an elementary school in Berlin on August 9, 2021.
    Updated October 6, 2021 at 8:25 PM ET

    The White House is allocating an additional $1 billion to purchase millions of rapid at-home tests for COVID-19, in response to an ongoing national shortage of these tests. The announcement was made by White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeffrey Zients at a briefing on Wednesday.

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