The Biden administration’s contracts to make 500 million free coronavirus tests available to Americans will draw down existing stockpiles of the kits and don’t call for making more, a federal health official said Tuesday.
The contracts were signed in recent days to buy Covid-19 tests from Goldbelt Security LLC, Revival Health, Inc., Medea Inc. and Atlantic Trading LLC. Before the pandemic, Medea sold vodka, while Goldbelt Security describes itself as a product distribution and logistics company.
The reason for the unusual supply choice: each of the companies has a stockpile of unused Covid-19 tests, Dawn O’Connell, Health and Human Services ...
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