8 Free COVID Tests: Can the White House's Plan Slow the Spread? Is there Evidence?

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Associate Professor

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[philyoung]

More people died from heart attack and cancer. Can I get 8 free cancer tests or 8 free heart attack screenings?

[sk]

Maybe they can send baby formula instead

[SuperSpikejack]

Really? Cvid is still a thing? Get a clue people
Live your life. Spoiler alert-we all die

[martine]

what makes me truly ill is the amount of my tax dollars wasted on stupidity and political theater.

[carolineriddler]

How “green” is it to send millions of testing kits that will end up in landfills.

[sherrykeers]

Thank you. It's refreshing to see you realize and say out loud how stupid all of their actions have been throughout this entire thing. A year from now there will still be people running around with their baby in a stroller, and both will have masks on.

[polrish]

Well I’m forced to get tested at my job, but at home tests don’t count. I recently had to pay 500 dollars for testing at a site cause I didn’t realize that my insurance didn’t cover there. I wanna know why the mandates for Federal Contractors is being wildly ignored, it’s not only hurting my pocket and others but wasting my time.

[gordananaletina]

The reason why they giving you free tests is to boost the infection rate in order to justify state of emergency.

[Timber]

"In public health if you can't do something useful, do something visible"- that says it all right there 😄

[dystoniaify]

If any of this was about science and public health, the government would instead invest in immunity testing.

[kammonkam]

On one point I have to disagree with you. You said the priority should be to vaccinate those who have not been exposed to the virus and have not been vaccinated. Well it is 2022 if someone still hasn't gotten one shot it is because they don't want it and if someone has survived the last two years without vaccine it would make even less sense to get it now since Omicron is mild for most people and it is a relatively cheap way to get natural immunity unless you are in a high risk group. So focus on the high risk groups by all means but most of the unvaccinated simply don't want it.

[angiemaskell]

Free tests that we paid for? How generous and typical.

[alunjones]

Yes, most of what's happened over the last two years has been governments wanting to be seen as doing something. As always this is making some people very rich.

[lilcherryblossom]

How about we promote healthy living now? The scare tactics are overplayed. “Slow the spread” is a useless effort this late in the game.

[fyrish]

USA is beyond help . I’m unjabbed, I’m working again after 2 years of this nonsense, flew down to the job, no masks in airports or the 2 planes (uk) ….never had a sniffle in years

[edoglesby]

Thank you Vinay for your insightful and informative videos. It’s nice to know I’m not crazy when I get frustrated with what seem to be non-sensical and asinine policies and mandates that seem to make zero sense.

[ramonaconnor]

When I saw the title of this video, I thought "why is YouTube notifying me of an old video "? Imagine my surprise that the government is giving out tests again. 'Cause that fixed it all last time!🤷‍♀️

[cathyburkart]

"Politics is as dangerous as COVID" . Well said, Dr Prasad

[orest]

im going to use my tests in ways they were not designed to be used, to answer my own questions.

[Macammacam]

thank you, sir. nothing is free. it s all about business. it s paid. and the vendors are the real winners.