“I told her I couldn't afford it and left,” said one person who was exposed to COVID but couldn’t pay $200 to see if they were positive.
whether the push for at-home testing is even efficient when positive or negative test results may never get reported to health officials. It’s up to people who self-test to tell healthcare professionals or local authorities if they’re sick.that efforts were being made to ramp up testing capacity across the city, but this week would be a “busy” one.
“I’d rather the @CityofBoston just open a walk in testing site in Allston instead,” Varriale replied to BuzzFeed News’ request for comment. “It was frustrating,” Mia said. She doesn't want to go back to an “extremely unsafe” place where the testing staff, who have potentially been exposed to positive cases, do not wear masks. She said urgency in her Detroit-area community to get tested has heightened in the past few weeks, although it doesn’t yet feel like what she’s heard of in cities such as New York.
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