Free covid test kits available now! Can screen for latest variants.

[niyad]

Just ordered mine. www.covid.gov/tests

[nature-lover]

1. Thanks!

[niyad]

2. You are most welcome!

[rogerballard]

3. Thank you

Done

[niyad]

4. You are most welcome!

[hlthe2b]

5. They are going to have to free up some $$ for COVID-19 boosters for the uninsured...

I encounter people every day who have tried their damndest to get an updated booster before the Bridge program ended in its last few days and got the appointments only to be told the NEW vaccine (the only one available) was not covered. These are those who fall between Medicaid and being able to afford Obamacare, so they really needed that program, but Congress failed to fund it.

I've spoken to my Congressional delegation about it, but they were on board to begin with. It is crazy that these people trying to do the best they can to protect themselves are at the mercy of the election and hopefully, sane policy. There is something really wrong with those who cannot/will not understand that preventing spread of infectious disease--especially respiratory vaccine-preventable disease requires as many as possible to remain fully vaccinated and boostered. Depriving some of such protection out of some punitive attitudes toward the poor, or other misplaced belief, hurts us all and puts many at risk for these diseases. But, for these "flat-earthers" or nasty punitive jerks, it is impossible to get through.

[niyad]

9. Sadly, you are absolutely correct. I fail to understand their short-sighted

hatred and ignorance.

[SilasSouleII]

6. Ordered, Thanks!

n/t

[niyad]

7. You are most wekcome!

[Hekate]

8. Thanks! Just ordered now.

[niyad]

11. You are most welcome.

[bif]

10. Thanks!

[niyad]

12. You are most welcome.

[liberalla]

13. I've been waiting! Thanks!

[Solly Mack]

14. Thank you!

[ancianita]

15. Right now CVS has the latest K variant vaccine, which I recommend.

I'm pretty sure shots are still free under this administration's subsidies. ( At least I hope so, since mine was.)

[dweller]

28. Do you have insurance?

For the uninsured, it’s $201.00

✌🏻

[ancianita]

41. Yes. Medicare. Okay, thank you for the cost info.

[DemonGoddess]

54. It's $165 for my area

I was able to get mine as my insurance covered it, now we have to find money for my daughter to get hers.

[dweller]

55. I'm in NC

$201 is pharmacy quote


✌🏻

[DemonGoddess]

56. SE Indiana

also a pharmacy quote

[AltairIV]

16. Thanks!

Thank you for reminding me.

[cbabe]

17. Email 'not valid' ...?

[niyad]

22. Do you mean yours? The website I listed is working for everyone else.

[cbabe]

24. Oh ah. I read it as an email address not a website address. Thanks.

[niyad]

25. Okay. Hope that helps.

[cbabe]

27. Yep. Order placed. Cheers.

[niyad]

30. Excellent!

[Mossfern]

18. Thanks - just ordered

I tried to order for my husband, but they only allow for one set of tests per household.

I had my updated Covid and flu vaccination about an hour ago.
.....rubbing my arm so I don't get that sore .......

[niyad]

20. You are most welcome! It sucks for many people that they can only get

one set of four. But this tells me that they are anxious about the next wave. Maybe check with your locall health department or pharmacy?

Also, don't just rub your arm, move it in every direction to get things moving. May you be side-effect free!

[Mossfern]

33. Thanks - doing that too!

I look like I'm being attacked by a swarm of bees!
There are test kits at CVS, but they cost about $20.

Let's just hope that we don't need them.

[niyad]

34. Same here. May they sit on our shelves, unneeded and expired.

[Trueblue Texan]

19. Thank you! nt

[pazzyanne]

21. Thank you!

Just ordered mine, thanks to your sharing information, niyad!

[niyad]

31. You are most welcome. I am just glad I got the information so that I

could share.

[iluvtennis]

23. Placed my order - thank you! n/t

[underpants]

26. Cool! Got mine ordered

I missed my shot appointment yesterday because I was sick.

[niyad]

29. Glad you got it ordered. Hope it is not covid, and that you feel better soon.

[paulkienitz]

32. Can you cite where these tests say they're good for flirt variants? I couldn't find corroboration for that.

I'm hoping this is true.

[Deep State Witch]

35. Thanks!

I think the ones that I got the last time, that my husband and I used to test ourselves when we got home from Europe, don't pick up the latest variants. I swear that I had COVID, but the tests that I was using kept showing negative.

[mitch96]

36. THANK YOU.. after dodging the bullet during the pandemic and getting all my shots I got Covid this week..uff

I was just up in Michigan and everybody I met was a "hugger". The day after I got back I started to feel symptoms and was in Denial.
It's not only a river in Egypt...
m

[Evolve Dammit]

40. That stinks. Sorry to hear. Seems to be everywhere. Know multiple folks who have had it recently. Hope it's mild.

[mitch96]

44. So far it seems mild. temp 99.6, mild head and body ache. Just tired and sleep alot.

And what they say about taste is true. Coffee tasted like junk this AM...
I love my coffee but this was not so good. Flavors of food are off also.
Oh well the joys of growing up..
m

[Evolve Dammit]

48. They said I didn't have it (kept testing negative) but cough has been 4 weeks and the weird smells are bizarre.

I had something in January 2020 and ended up with pneumonia. Pretty sure it was covid, but not recognized at that point. Taste was definately affected, and relentless coughing to the point I pulled muscles in abdomen.

[mitch96]

49. "coughing to the point I pulled muscles in abdomen" well that sucks out loud..nt

[Evolve Dammit]

50. Yeah, it hurt!! Coughed incessantly. Got some heavy duty Rx cough suppressant. OTC stuff is worthless.

[mitch96]

51. If I remember correctly it is codeine that suppresses the cough...addicting though.nt

[Evolve Dammit]

52. I am being very sparing but it is the only thing to let me sleep without coughing. It's a hydrocodone syrup.

[FlyingPiggy]

37. Thanks for sharing this info

[Prairie_Seagull]

38. Done, thanks niyad.

I do have one question though. This seems to indicate that not all tests previously gotten are capable of finding all variants. Am I reading this right?

[Evolve Dammit]

39. Thanks niyad!

[Highway61]

42. Thank you!

Just ordered mine

[twodogsbarking]

43. Thanks I will get them. Hope y'all don't git it.

[Ananda62]

45. Thanks!

Just ordered mine and told my relatives.

[mainer]

46. THANKS!

We ran out of our last ones.

[Nevilledog]

47. Thanks for the reminder.

[GP6971]

53. Juet ordered ours. Many thanks!!