The costs of at-home, self-test kits for COVID-19 will also transition to traditional health care coverage, in which it is covered fully or in part by a private or public insurance plan, or directly by consumers.The costs of PCR tests for COVID-19 will begin transitioning to traditional health care coverage, similar to the way it is handled for other respiratory illnesses, and covered fully or in part by an individual’s private insurance plan publicly funded programs such as Medicare and Medicaid or directly by consumers.Connecticut’s remaining state-supported COVID-19 test sites, which are operating at four community health centers, will end on June 30, 2023.Lamont explained the impact that ending the federal and state declarations will have on certain services and programs that have been in place throughout the pandemic:Ĭonnecticut residents can expect the end of the federal and state declarations to have an impact on the following services and programs: I continue to urge Connecticut residents to take actions to protect themselves from the spread of COVID-19 and all respiratory viruses – stay home when you’re sick, get vaccinated and boosted to limit your risk of contracting viruses, and listen to the advice of medical experts on ways to stay healthy.” We have made much progress from where we were three years ago, and the workers in Connecticut’s public health community have gone above and beyond at building a testing infrastructure, a vaccination program, a sophisticated disease reporting network, and a means to distribute therapeutics, PPE, and more than 1.5 million self-testing kits. “This declaration provided us with the tools needed to develop an immediate, urgent, and frontline response to the initial outbreak, and put in place the structure necessary to ensure the people of our state have the protections needed to respond to it. “Ending the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration does not mean that the virus has been eradicated,” Lamont said.
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