The Biden administration is also pouring $600 million into more COVID tests manufacturing across the U.S.
or lab-based options, but have a higher chance of yielding false negative test results — meaning they miss some cases where a person is actually infected.
"We reserve the right to up that if we need to, if we were to see a surge different than what we've been seeing before, or if a new variant came along and we needed access to tests quicker. The wonderful thing about having a stockpile is we can use it," said O'Connell.
That will allow test manufacturers to remain as a"warm base" even after demand subsides, O'Connell said, able to ramp up faster for any unexpected surges. That was a lesson officials learned from the original surge of the Omicron variant, which led to shortages of kits.
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