The websites of the Postal Service and the Department of Health and Human Services began calling people on Monday to petition for a third round of the free tests to be delivered to any household.
The free shipments will now include eight rapid antigen at-home tests, according to the Postal Service.
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“Each order now includes 8 rapid antigen COVID-19 tests,” the USPS website said. “Your order of 8 tests will come in 2 separate packages (4 tests in each package), each with its own tracking number.”
In past rounds, people were only able to order four tests per household. The tests will present results within 30 minutes and are not PCR tests, according to the HHS COVID-19 website.
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The plan to send households free tests was announced by President Joe Biden in December. Online applications for the first round began in January, with a second-round in March.
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More than 1 million people have died due to COVID-19 in the two and a half years since the pandemic began ripping through the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
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The agency determined that COVID-19 was associated with over 1,000,200 deaths using data gleaned from death certificates. COVID-19 was listed as the primary cause of death on at least 90% of certificates.
Two years ago, a million deaths caused by the disease took an unimaginable toll. Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who established part of former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response team, predicted in March 2020 that, with mitigation measures in place, 100,000 to 240,000 U.S. citizens could die during the pandemic. The projected number of fatalities without mitigation efforts was 1 million to 2 million.
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Around 300 people are dying due to COVID-19 every day. That seven-day average is a far cry from weekly totals that exceeded an average of 3,000 deaths daily during the recent Omicron surge and the severe surge that took place during the winter of 2021.
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The U.S. has entered a phase in the pandemic in which the rate of severe infections and deaths has dropped so considerably that most people have resumed their normal lives without much concern for possible infection. But people who lost loved ones to COVID-19 may never reach that kind of normalcy again.
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“One million COVID deaths, one million empty chairs around the family dinner table, each irreplaceable,” President Joe Biden said last week at the Global COVID-19 Summit. “Irreplaceable losses, each leaving behind a family, a community forever changed because of this pandemic.”