Biden administration has shipped more than 90% of free at-home COVID test orders
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The Biden administration has shipped more than 90% of the orders placed on COVIDtests.gov, the White House's top testing adviser said, capping an "unprecedented" effort to buy, pack and deliver millions of free at-home COVID-19 tests for Americans as the Omicron variant drove a record surge in demand last month.
"It's a lot of firsts. It's the biggest test acquisition in history. It's the fastest delivery of anything to this number of households," said Dr. Thomas Inglesby, who was tapped over the winter to serve as the White House COVID-19 response team's senior adviser on testing.
Inglesby said getting testing kits from suppliers had been the "rate-limiting" step to fulfilling all of the initial requests, which the administration had initially said would "typically ship within 7 to 12 days of ordering." The White House announced last month they had received around 60 million orders within 10 days after launching the site.
