News: Additional Support Arrives For Covid-19 Test-To-Treat

Additional Support Arrives For The Covid-19 Test-To-Treat Program
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/04/29/additional-support-arrives-for-the-covid-19-test-to-treat-program/
 

The Biden Administration's Test-to-treat program has the potential to transform the pandemic, especially for those at high risk of severe disease. The program represents a great advance in healthcare delivery. 

Test-to-treat is intended to eliminate any barriers to accessing testing and treatment in the early days of infection. The ideal scenario is for patients to walk into a pharmacy that has a health clinic staffed by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians where they can be tested for Covid-19 at no cost, and if treatment is deemed appropriate be prescribed oral antiviral therapy at no cost.

Currently, only 2,800 of the approximately 50,000 retail pharmacies in the U.S. have health clinics staffed by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians causing issues of access and equity. But the Biden Administration is working to address these issues and I hope that there continue to be many incremental improvements. Oral antivirals are currently available in 20,000 locations across the US including pharmacies, community health centers, hospitals, urgent care centers, Veterans Affairs clinics, and Department of Defense Medical Treatment Facilities. The Biden administration intends to increase that number to 30,000 in the coming weeks.

 

 

 

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到这个美国官方网站查询提供免费测试和口服药的机构

https://aspr.hhs.gov/TestToTreat/Pages/default.aspx