Walmart and Kroger are raising prices on BinaxNOW test kits, made by Abbott Laboratories, after anThe White House said in September that customers would be able to buy the BinaxNow kits, two-packs of which retail for about $23, at Walmart, Kroger and Amazon for up to a 35% discount, a savings of roughly $8, for three months.
That deal lapsed in December. On Tuesday, a BinaxNow two-pack cost $19.88 on Walmart's website and $23.99 on Kroger's website. The kits were unavailable on Amazon's website. Costlier tests may make it harder for some people to afford them. Epidemiologists and other health experts say that tests need to be inexpensive — as they are in much of Europe — to encourage people to use them regularly.Demand for COVID-19 tests has surged as the
variant has spread in the United States in recent weeks. Many stores are sold out, and retailers and pharmacies started limiting the number of tests each customer could buy., announced a new plan to make 500 million additional at-home tests available this month.
Why they are not accurate readings. According to Bloomberg, a new COVID-19 strain found in France is under investigation by the World Health Organization, but it ‘hasn’t become much of a threat since it was first identified in November'
And again the rich are getting richer and the poor just rot without tests
They should freeze the prices
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