The website was launched as part of the CDC’s Increasing Community Access to Testing (ICATT) program to help communities that are at greater risk of being impacted by COVID-19 and who have less access to health care for tests. This effort will help to control surges by increasing testing and allowing for contact tracing.
Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance companies take on the costs of this testing so that it is free to the public and so that anyone can access testing without health insurance. Testing at these sites may include nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), such as polymerase chain reaction tests, or rapid antigen point of care (POC) testing.
