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Biden bets on rapid COVID tests but they can be hard to find

Matthew Perrone, AP //September 21, 2021

Biden bets on rapid COVID tests but they can be hard to find

Matthew Perrone, AP //September 21, 2021//

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the pandemic, which is overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country.

But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many parts of the U.S., and manufacturers warn it will take them weeks to ramp up production, after scaling it back amid plummeting demand over the summer.

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