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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) have awarded more than $562 million for COVID-19 test manufacturing. Biological Consumables

The funding — part of the American Rescue Plan to boost manufacturing of key products that increase domestic testing supply — went to a dozen U.S. companies to support the production of supplies including pipette tips, protective packaging, swabs and reagents, according to a news release.

HHS and DOD’s investments follow President Joe Biden’s announcements of efforts to make COVID-19 testing more available to Americans, including a $3 billion investment in rapid testing to quadruple the supply of at-home tests by December.

Here are the companies that received awards as part of the $562 million investment from the U.S. government:

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Diagnostics, Featured, Funding Roundup, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), U.S. Department of Defense

Sean Whooley is an associate editor who mainly produces work for MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and Drug Delivery Business News. He received a bachelor's degree in multiplatform journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at swhooley@wtwhmedia.com.

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