The federal government is ending its free at-home Covid-19 test program this week, citing a lack of funding and efforts to preserve supply ahead of an anticipated fall surge in cases, a White House official told CNN on Sunday.
The White House is rushing ahead to roll out a new COVID-19 booster shot campaign in early September, but is facing an uphill battle to ensure it is successful.
Anthony Fauci, who on Monday announced that he is leaving the Biden administration, pushed back on conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic hours later, calling the claims "a distortion of reality."
The U.S. government is planning to stop paying for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, and shift the bill onto the healthcare industry and eventually the consumer—possibly making it one of the first countries to end the practice of giving out coronavirus vaccines for free.
