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US going the opposite way to UK. To deal with supply issues UK reduce demand. US increase supply. Testing is the only way we can see what we're fighting against. Last week Boris turned out the lights and put a blind fold on the UK. Countries still not United on 'what is the best Covid strategy'
Boston opens new high-capacity testing center
From CNN’s Paradise Afshar
A medical worker prepares a Covid-19 PCR test in Boston, Massachusetts on December 20, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images)
A high-capacity Covid-19 testing site opened at the Bruce C. Bolling Building in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood on Tuesday.
Cambridge-based CIC Health will provide free PCR testing services from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday on a walk-in basis, according to Mayor Michelle Wu.
“Today we are celebrating another testing site that the Boston Public Health Commission has set up to make sure testing is accessible across all of our neighborhoods in Boston,” Wu said.
Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, called the new testing center a “vital resource” for the Roxbury neighborhood, and its surrounding communities.
“We know COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted people of color and exacerbated existing barriers to care,” Ojikutu said. “So, we’re really proud to open this site in the heart of Boston’s Black and African American community.”
To get the word out about the location, flyers will be posted across the Roxbury neighborhood in multiple languages.
“I am so excited at the potential for this to be one more way to cut down the lines that we’ve been seeing across the city,” Wu said.
Additional Boston testing sites are slated to be opened in the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods starting this week.