The coronavirus is still spreading across the U.S., but retailers have already started making changes to their mitigation efforts. Walgreens and CVS both stopped providing free COVID testing to everyone in their stores recently. According to the retailers, only certain individuals have access to no-cost testing now.

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According to Walgreens, the move away from free COVID testing for all started July 1 as a result of "recent changes to the federal eligibility criteria." The White House has steadily warned that it had been running out of funding for COVID testing, treatment, and vaccines since early 2022. Due to a lack of action from Congress for additional funds, the federal government revealed in June that it was planning to cut roughly $10 billion from COVID testing and other areas to shift the remaining funds toward vaccination efforts instead, The Washington Post reported.

(Maybe the government should not of wasted funds on so many unrelated STUPID projects!)