While Covid testing is much easier to come by than it was early in the pandemic, the ability to get a test — and timely results — can vary widely nationwide.
, suggested that the variability in how long it takes to get results has created a seller’s market if companies can deliver results by a specific time. “People are going to pay for that sort of guarantee,” she said. “There’s this potential for people to get fleeced, for sure.”offers PCR results analyzed in three hours in New York and Florida for those willing to pay more than $200 a pop.
“We just paid $50 apiece for these tests, which pisses me off,” she said. “Because, you know, we’ve all been out of work for a year and a half, and this state has the money.”In Helena, Montana, Stanfel has gotten a PCR test every week for many months because she takes immune-suppressing drugs for a rare condition called sarcoidosis.
Montana’s public health lab is in Stanfel’s city, but the volume of tests since early August has regularly exceeded the lab’s capacity, said Jon Ebelt, a spokesperson for the state health department. It has had to prioritize tests from hospitalized or symptomatic people and send other specimens to private labs, a process that can stretch the wait time for results to up to seven days.
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