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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Binax tests are about $11 each. So if you need 500 tests/week, knowing there will be some opt-outs, I'd say if you could donate about $50k through your PTA, find a way to source that many rapid tests, and get a group of parent volunteers to help kids administer them, you could probably get through the next couple months. [/quote]

You need to do binax twice over 18 hours as per the insert in Order to consider it a negative test. That makes it $22.[/quote]

That’s what they cost all of us shopping at CVS.

The cost to the DCPS for a large bulk purchase would be far cheaper.[/quote]

The Shield T3 testing K-12 that DCPS (and it sounds like many charters) is doing costs $35/test processed, according to their website.  https://www.shieldt3.com/k12/[/quote]

The cost of all this testing in the US just drives me absolutely bananas! In the UK you can pick up test kits free at any pharmacy!  In Germany, you can get a five pack for about $3.  What is wrong with this country??!  Why can't public health get it together??[/quote]

The UK and German ones are the rapid antigen tests like the ones you can get at CVS.  But here we have to pay $25 for two, while in the UK they are free and in Germany they are 5 for $3.  I don't know what kind of subsidies the German and UK governments are providing, but I highly doubt they are paying gazillions of dollars like we/our governments are.

Uh....the governments are paying for those tests.  They are free to you (as many tests in DC are) but it's not like the test manufacturers can make the tests, administer the tests, or analyze the tests for free.  It's not like you personally are paying for the tests at schools (except through your tax dollars).[/quote][/quote]

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