# Covid 19 testing
Larry Lease
Medicare Will Soon Begin Covering COVID-19 Home Tests
Medicare will soon begin covering COVID-19 at-home test kits.Annie Spratt/Unsplash. The Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced they will be conducting a program to start providing home testing kits. This comes after American Association of Retired Persons vice president Nancy LeaMond called on them to give people 65 and older equal access to tools to keep them safe. According to USA Today, Medicare beneficiaries will have their home testing kits covered by the program.
2022-02-06
Collin Cunningham
Queen City Roundup 1/20: NC truck flip kills 2 Marines, GOP votes to delay primaries, state hits 20K COVID deaths
The NC State HIghway Patrol said 19-year-old Louis Barrera was driving a 7-ton truck like this when it flipped, killing 2 Marines Wednesday(Patrick Smith/Flickr Gallery per Wikipedia)
Charlotte, NC2022-01-20
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