Starting this friday, everyone in england will be offered two free covet tests a week at home or at work. In many other countries, they've had a free testing programme with both piecard and antigen tests. Even if it's not paid for by the government, there are enough tests on the market that you can pick one up at your grocery store of pharmacy costs bout om as much as a cup of coffee,. And in the united states, we have a lot of gum, but we don't have a lots of testing. We got our prioritye slightly mixed. The fda put out a series of temp lates saying like 'this is all the information here' i
And why they're easy to find in Europe (though they don't seem to be helping much at the moment).
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