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New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing -- the holiday season
Nov 20, 2021 1 min, 6 secs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions more home tests for COVID-19 are hitting store shelves, but will there be enough for Americans hoping to screen themselves before holiday gatherings?

While everyone is vaccinated, she plans to bring enough Abbott rapid tests for them to use.

is on pace to have about 200 million home tests per month by December, quadrupling the number from this summer.

She was able to snap up six tests online last month and plans to share them with family members, particularly her son and daughter who are traveling home via plane and train for Thanksgiving.

Market leader Abbott says it is back to producing 50 million of its BinaxNow tests per month, after slashing production last summer when testing demand plummeted.

Only a few home tests are widely available nationwide with new ones set to launch, including from Acon Laboratories.

Under pressure from the Biden administration, the Food and Drug Administration has been clearing home tests at a faster pace, authorizing four of the 13 tests now available in the last two months.

For testing advocates, the pandemic’s persistence underscores the need for rapid, widespread COVID-19 screening to quickly catch infections before they spread-- an approach they have championed since the beginning of the U.S.

Countries such as Britain distribute billions of tests for free and recommend testing twice a week.

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