Coronavirus Watch: How to order free at-home tests
The government's website offering free coronavirus tests is up and running.
The website is COVIDTests.gov, which directs people to a U.S. Postal Service site. Americans are supposed to be able to order four kits per address. Once ordered, tests are expected to be mailed within seven to 12 days. Read more here.
It's Thursday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the Paste BN Network. Here's more news to know:
- The Center for COVID Control, a nationwide chain of testing sites, provides "inaccurate and deceptive" test result information and has fraudulently reported negative test results, the Minnesota Attorney General's Office alleged in a consumer-protection lawsuit Wednesday.
- The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months.
- About 250 physicians sent a letter Thursday to the FDA demanding children under 5 get “urgent access” to vaccines.
- An Indiana lawmaker wants to block the state's health care providers from discouraging use of anti-parasite medicine ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a controversial drug that has been rejected by the FDA as a COVID-19 treatment.
- All New Jersey health care workers will need to be fully vaccinated and receive booster shots or face termination, under an order signed by Gov. Phil Murphy.
- On the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games: NBC Sports will not send its announcing teams to China, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
See our COVID-19 resource guide here. See total reported cases and deaths here. On vaccinations: About 75% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 63% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
– Grace Hauck, Paste BN breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck