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expiredfreshsqueezed posted Sep 20, 2023 8:10 PM

U.S. Household: Request One Set of 4 COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Home Test Kit

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COVID.gov is offering every U.S. Household: Request One Set of 4 COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Home Test Kit for Free when you click on the 'Order Free At-Home Test' link & place an order through the USPS form. Shipping is free.

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Note, must fill out the form completely through the United States Postal Service to request your test kits.

Take an at-⁠home test:
  • If you begin having COVID-⁠19 symptoms like fever, sore throat, runny nose, or loss of taste or smell, or
  • At least 5 days after you come into close contact with someone with COVID-⁠19, or
  • When you're going to gather with a group of people, especially those who are at risk of severe disease or may not be up to date on their COVID-⁠19 vaccines

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Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Every U.S. household can place an order to receive one set of 4 free at-home tests COVID-19 rapid test kits, delivered to their home vis USPS
  • The U.S. government will continue to make COVID-19 test available to uninsured individuals and underserved communities through existing outreach program
  • Orders will ship free starting the week of October 2, 2023
  • Limit of one order per residential address
  • Offer valid while test kit supplies/distribution period last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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COVID.gov is offering every U.S. Household: Request One Set of 4 COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Home Test Kit for Free when you click on the 'Order Free At-Home Test' link & place an order through the USPS form. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member freshsqueezed for finding this deal

Note, must fill out the form completely through the United States Postal Service to request your test kits.

Take an at-⁠home test:
  • If you begin having COVID-⁠19 symptoms like fever, sore throat, runny nose, or loss of taste or smell, or
  • At least 5 days after you come into close contact with someone with COVID-⁠19, or
  • When you're going to gather with a group of people, especially those who are at risk of severe disease or may not be up to date on their COVID-⁠19 vaccines

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • Every U.S. household can place an order to receive one set of 4 free at-home tests COVID-19 rapid test kits, delivered to their home vis USPS
  • The U.S. government will continue to make COVID-19 test available to uninsured individuals and underserved communities through existing outreach program
  • Orders will ship free starting the week of October 2, 2023
  • Limit of one order per residential address
  • Offer valid while test kit supplies/distribution period last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Please be considerate and keep the political comments out of this thread. Thank you!
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Because in reality the expiration date is only a suggested shelf life. The product doesn't know to just stop working on a given date. It's honestly one of the biggest scams to get people to buy a new product based on an expiration date. I work in supply chain and see so many items get tossed because of an expiration date. From a Harvard study: "90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date." (https://www.health.harvard.edu/st...20to%20use.) YMMV
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Quote from LivelySink338 :
How can you just extend an expiration date? Seems shady to me
The manufacturer has to pay to keep testing them for accuracy as they get older. I'm not a doctor, but some tests officially last 2 years and some less then 1.5 years. I'm pretty sure they all last at least two years and the 1.5yr marked ones just didn't spring for the continued long term evaluation of their tests.

Anecdotally, when I had COVID, tests expired months previously still showed a positive result.
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Woo, tax money at use 🙃
(Aka it's not Free)
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should I pitch the testing kits that I have in my cupboard from over a year ago?
Might they be expired and order new ones?
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Quote from B3N0L1 :
Woo, tax money at use 🙃
(Aka it's not Free)
Yes, services from our government are funded by taxes, very good!
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JeffJ9000Sep 21, 2023 4:40 PM
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Have there been random control trials of these tests yet? Because their accuracy has been brought under scrutiny and the manufacturers of these have not addressed the questions. If we're going to blow all this money on these "free" tests, we need data showing how effective they are. If people are relying on them, we need to know whether they work or not.
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Thanks.
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Quote from numike :
should I pitch the testing kits that I have in my cupboard from over a year ago?
Might they be expired and order new ones?
There is a link on the site for extended expiration dates. A lot have been extended a year out.
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JeffJ9000Sep 21, 2023 4:49 PM
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Quote from numike :
should I pitch the testing kits that I have in my cupboard from over a year ago?
Might they be expired and order new ones?
Why not keep the old ones, order a few new ones and then when you think you have cov, use both to see which one is correct - or incorrect. Who's to say?
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Perfect thanks for the link
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