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Posted on 12/18/2021 12:27:52 PM PST by marcusmaximus
New Yorkers are struggling to find COVID-19 tests as the city suffers a surge of infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
After New York recorded a record number of new cases on Friday, each new positive test is kicking off frantic text messages to friends and colleagues warning them to get tested, and the looming Christmas holiday is prompting scores more to seek the tests before they travel.
The surge in demand has stretched the city's testing capacity to the limit, with wait times of more than two hours on Saturday at some city testing centers and pharmacies in Manhattan running out of at-home test kits amid huge demand.
Furious New Yorkers are now questioning why Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration was not prepared for the crisis, nearly a month after Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency over the Omicron threat.
'New York City's test sites don't have enough capacity, staffing or supervision,' tweeted New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay. 'Almost two years in, there is no excuse for making sick New Yorkers - or any sick people, anywhere - wait for hours in cold rain to get tested.'
According to the Walgreens website, no Walgreens or Duane Reade pharmacy locations in Manhattan had home test kits or appointments for PCR or rapid testing available on Saturday afternoon.
'We have recently seen an elevated demand for testing, and our teams are working to ensure our customers are being cared for to support this demand,' a Walgreens spokesman told DailyMail.com in a statement.
City-run Health + Hospitals free testing sites were overwhelmed with demand, with the Fort Hamilton site in Brooklyn reporting a wait time exceeding two hours.
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The virus is so, so, so, so bad, people must wait on line for hours in order to take a test to see if they have it!!!
Triple-vaxxed people must wait on line for hours in order to take a test to see if they have it!!!
Tough. They hate DeBlasio, but they elected him. They elected ANOTHER Dem. Wouldn’t think of doing anything different.
GTH New York.
Old commie maxim: The worse things get the better things get. This man made crisis will require more financial aid.
What is wrong with these people? If you think you might have it, go friggin home and monitor your symptoms. If they get bad, go to the emergency room. Otherwise, tough it out and try not to infect others.
No more tests, end of surge. Simple as that.
They voted for him twice, embrace the suck!
LOL, running out of covid tests?! Do you have a quarter? Flip it and heads = you have covid. Those odds are the same as those tests being correct, AND the bonus is the coin can tell which variant just as accurately too.
The folks are going to get sick standing out there in the rain.
You really can’t fix stupid.
HOW can deathly ill people stand in line for HOURS???? Hmmmmmmm.
Shut off the nat gas, let the cold freeze out the virus!
This is why New York City needs vaporized.
They could improve their odds if they were to take ivermectin, zinc, and vitamin D.
How do they know it’s Omicron as opposed to any other variant?
Embrace the suck NYC !
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Seems like we heard this story last year.
New York City folks (including some Freepers that live there) remind me of this Star Trek episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AkWWYtCjpo
Landreu: “For the good of the body you must die.”
New cases in NYC are at a high not seen in a year. What does this say about NYC covid policies?
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