Late last month, the Biden administration announced a new initiative to lower the cost of at-home Covid-19 tests and make them more widely available.
It's long past time. Throughout the pandemic, bureaucratic sclerosis has proven the American regulatory apparatus to be an impediment to fighting Covid-19—not to mention future public health threats.
Recall that in the early days of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was tasked with responsibility for manufacturing and distributing a successful Covid-19 test. Other private and public labs were discouraged—or even forbidden—from creating their own tests.
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