$231.8 million February 2, 2021 The amount that the Biden administration has agreed to pay Ellume, an Australian company that has created the first at-home COVID-19 test that can send results to a smartphone within 15 minutes, to build a manufacturing plant in the United States. Once the manufacturing plant in the U.S. has been completed, the company expects they will be able to provide more than 500,000 of these at-home, rapid tests per day. (NPR — Feb. 1, 2021) The number of acceptance emails that the University of Kentucky accidentally sent out to high school seniors for a program that usually only accepts about 36 students per year. Some of the students who received the acceptance letter claimed to have never applied to, visited or went onto the website for the university. The university apologized for the mistake and said it was due to a “technical issue.”