My personal concern at this point is actually through testing sites that are maxed out with no open date/time slots.
We closed a lot of our mobile sites back in May when the CDC opened up masking guidelines, cases were starting to decline rapidly, etc., So now, we’re starting to see the likes of only certain stores operate with testing like CVS, Walgreens, and some local doctor offices have test kits to. The problem is, they’re booking over two weeks out to get tested and their cancellation list is even overwhelmingly long, which is forcing people to either A.) Not get tested and they return to their normal work life assuming it may not be a ‘big deal’, or these people just go on accounted for with the amount of cases that don’t reflect the actual infection rate.
What we need to see happen, is mobile test sites start re-opening, because we have plenty of testing kits available, [including rapid], but we don’t have enough actual venues, where people are forced to frequent the same spot in their communities, and no one wants to venture an hour or so outside their community if they’re infected.
We keep seeing health officials promote ‘getting tested’, but how are these people people supposed to get tested if there’s no available time slots to do so. It’s literally one step forward – two steps back.