UNITED STATES – 2021/12/21: In this photo illustration, Abbott’s at-home covid-19 rapid test kits are seen on display in Orlando.

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UNITED STATES – 2021/12/21: In this photo illustration, Abbott’s at-home covid-19 rapid test kits are seen on display in Orlando.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the federal government has purchased 500 million at-home covid-19 rapid test kits. These at-home covid-19 rapid test kits will be mailed to the Americans who requested them. This is one of a series of new steps Biden announced on December 21, 2021, as the country faces a potentially crippling wintertime surge of infections, spurred on by the now-dominant Omicron covid-19 strain. (Photo Illustration by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)