The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to US residents starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings.
for Americans to order four rapid tests to be shipped to their homes for free, with the first tests to ship later this month.
The best mask “is the one that you will wear and the one you can keep on all day long, that you can tolerate in public indoor settings,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week.
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