Regarding the Aug. 8 front-page article “Uptick in covid, but a decline in free testing”:
The significant decline in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths offers hope for brighter days. But that hope is tempered by the concurrent expiration of policies that saved lives and reduced poverty during the pandemic yet were relegated to “temporary” status.
Coronavirus tests offer a case in point.
Since the end of the public health emergency, free tests are again the exception rather than the rule. The cost to some families is considerable, and the lapse in other health and economic supports makes it worse.
The above is an excerpt of a letter to the editor originally published in the Washington Post.
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