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Health insurer Humana Inc is expanding access to Covid-19 testing at hundreds of new drive-through sites at Walmart Inc stores, as well as offering at-home tests to members.
The initiatives come amid reports of hours-long waits for tests in new hot spots like Houston as coronavirus cases surge in many southern and western states.
While testing in the US has expanded dramatically, the rate at which people are getting positive results is outstripping the rise in numbers tested, indicating the virus is spreading faster than the country can find it.
Setting up test sites in big-box-store parking lots was a high-profile goal of the Trump administration’s response to Covid-19.
Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon appeared with President Donald Trump at a news conference on testing in April. Almost 123,000 people have been tested at Walmart sites. Humana hasn’t set a goal for how many members it hopes to test, just that anyone who wants one can get one, CEO Bruce Broussard said in an interview.