On Oct. 22, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that it had invested more than half a billion dollars from the American Rescue Plan to boost manufacturing of key products needed to increase domestic testing supply.

The Department of Defense (DoD) earlier awarded over $562 million to a dozen U.S. companies to support manufacturing of supplies like pipette tips, protective packaging, swabs, and reagents used to detect the virus in samples.

The DoD awarded over $562 million to a dozen U.S. companies to support manufacturing of supplies like pipette tips, protective packaging, swabs, and reagents used to detect the virus in samples.

Supporting manufacturing of needed products like these will help strengthen the supply chain for COVID-19 tests, including rapid at-home tests, with the goal of increasing supply and availability of tests that are high quality and easy to use.