Thread by @DrEricDing

🧪NEW—all households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from the US Postal Service.
•Limit of one order per address
•One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen #COVID19 tests
•Ships starting in late January

ORDER FREE 👇
special.usps.com/testkits

2) the free rapid antigen home test ordering process is extremely simple. You can order more if you have more than one address it seems. There isn’t any fine print that says limit one per household. Just one per *residential address*.
special.usps.com/testkits

3) However, USPS website does validate if the address has had an order placed already before. Thus, please don’t order for a friend’s address without their okay. And it seems **different APARTMENTS are okay** if the address is recognized by USPS to be a known apt building.

4) Ha, apparently we got ahead of the White House and HHS on the ordering website!! It wasn’t supposed to go out until tomorrow, but the crack internet sleuths who found the USPS website (embedded in covidtests.gov) found it early today!

5) officially beat the NYT in reporting it. The WH cautions there could be a few bugs in beta testing. But glad they got the site up! nytimes.com/live/2022/01/1…

6) WARNING— do not let the rapid test kits sit outside in freezing temperatures too long!! It could ruin them. Praying the USPS figures this out… but I’m worried. Because it’s January.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1483690497763913728

7) Where is the @US_FDA in clarifying this temperature sensitivity of all the mailed rapid test kits? January temperatures across the country are often below freezing.

➡️ always check the C control line whenever you do any lateral flow test.