LOS ANGELES - For two weeks, Rachael Jones has stayed home, going without a paycheck while waiting and waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test from a pharmacy near Philadelphia.“I’m just so disappointed.
I just don’t know how -- with the resources and the people we have and the money we have -- we can’t get this right,” she said.Four months, 3 million confirmed infections and over 130,000 deaths into the U.S.
coronavirus outbreak, Americans confronted with an alarming resurgence of the scourge are facing long lines at testing sites and going a week or more without receiving a diagnosis.
Some sites are running out of kits even as testing is ramped up.Labs are reporting shortages of materials and don’t have enough workers to process the.