Why At-Home Covid-19 Tests Are So Hard to Find

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Months after they first came on the market, at-home Covid-19 tests are still scarce in some parts of the country. But it didn't have to be this way. WSJ's Brianna Abbott unpacks the decisions and circumstances that led to the at-home testing shortage. And healthcare CEO Zachariah Reitano explains how he found tests for his customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yesterday, I stopped by my local pharmacy in Brooklyn.
0:09.1	I was looking for one of the most coveted items in America right now.
0:12.0	Did you have at home COVID test?
0:14.3	And at home COVID test.
0:16.1	Here all out.
0:17.1	Have they been hard to get?
0:19.3	Yes.
0:20.3	Very like that's what we got.
0:22.3	And then it's going to be trying to get some more soap.
0:27.6	The woman at the counter gave me the bad news.
0:30.0	They didn't have any.
0:31.9	And her manager, Vivek Joshi, explained that it had been this way for weeks.
0:36.8	How long have you been out?
0:38.3	Almost, it was a four Christmas.
0:41.9	24.
0:42.9	24, yeah.
0:43.9	24.
0:44.9	Vivek told me that wholesalers have offered to sell him more tests, but with all the demand,
0:49.2	the price is going up.
0:51.0	Well, I do have wholesalers selling me, but the problem is that the price what I used to
0:55.8	sell at, they sell a much more higher than the price I used to sell at.
0:59.5	Really?
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