Andy Slavitt, senior adviser on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, announced Monday that The Department of Defense (DOD) and The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are funding a project that will make home tests for COVID-19 available to millions of people by the end of 2021.
The Biden administration awarded $231.8 million to Ellume USA LLC, which initially got the green light from the Trump administration, to increase the production of the home test. During a press briefing Monday, Slavitt said that the over-the-counter, self-performed test kits give 95 percent accurate test results within 15 minutes.
