Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests covered by Insuance
Per the Biden administration, Insurers are now required to cover at-home COVID testing kits every month with no out-of-pocket fees to you.
If you are covered by a US-based insurance plan, you are eligible to get up to 8 free over-the-counter tests/month at no cost to you. A family of four on the same plan would get up to 32 tests covered by their health plan per month.
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COVID variant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 40 percent of cases in the US: CDC
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Thanks for the link! There's a longer article at https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/health/covid-variant-xbb-explainer/index.html
A few nuggets from that:
1) the most recent booster reduces the severity of this variant, but a large majority of people haven't gotten it yet, 2) antibody treatments are not effective against it, so we shouldn't count on them to relieve our suffering, 3) antivirals still help, 4) reducing exposure, masking, and air cleaning are still effective prevention techniques.
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