With COVID cases hitting new records in Massachusetts, it seems like everyone is trying to get tested. And testing providers are struggling to keep up. Every day, there are new reports and images of people stuck in testing lines for hours.
Outside the Bowdoin Street Health Center in Dorchester, the line for COVID-19 testing flowed down the street, turned the corner and then wrapped around the other side of the block.
Baker said he hopes a new program to let communities buy home test kits at a steep discount and distribute them to residents will help. In the meantime, many existing centers are struggling to keep up. That's especially true around the holidays, when many testing centers have limited hours and many residents are urgently trying to get tested before or after visiting family.
To expand, testing centers need help from both the state and federal government to expand, he said. That means more staff, more testing supplies, and more capacity at the laboratories that actually analyze the samples collected at local clinics.On Thursday, George Martins of Brockton spent two hours waiting in line on Bowdoin Street. And that was after he stopped by the clinic earlier in the week, only to give up.
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