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00:00Next week we'll announce. Well that's how we're making high quality mask available to American people. The American people for faith. I know I know. We all wish that we could finally be done with wearing mask. I get it. But there is a prayer and a really important tool to stop the spread especially of a highly transmittable homegrown variant. So please please wear the mask. Second testing. We're seeing real improvement and testing. When I got here we were doing fewer than 2 million tests a day. Now it's changed. None of these tests were at home or rapid test this month. It's estimated that we will hit approximately 15 million tests a day and we'll have over three hundred seventy five million at home. Rapid test in January alone. That's a huge leap. We've taken a number of steps including invoking the Defense Production Act as early as last February to ramp up production. You know we're on track. We're on track to roll out a Web site next week where you can order free test shipped to your home. And in addition to the 500 million half a billion tests that are in the process of being acquired to ship to homes for free today I'm directing my team to procure an additional half a billion additional five hundred million more tests to distribute for free. I made a billion tests in total to meet future demand.

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Biden Sending Free Covid-19 Tests to Homes

The Biden administration’s program to send free Covid-19 tests to U.S. households informally launched on Tuesday to prepare for its official rollout on Wednesday. President Joe Biden spoke about the plan on January 13. (Source: Bloomberg)

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