Kim Gorode, a spokesperson for Quest, said its processed 400,000 more tests over the last two weeks compared to the beginning of December.įrom Dec. “There were no appointments available and when I finally did find one, he went and had the test done, but now it’s been a week and we still have no results from that,” said Cathy Andrews.īut the wait times for both Quest and Labcorp are not that long. They’ve been quarantining since Cathy Andrews said her husband was showing symptoms after being exposed to the virus when he visited family out of town. The turnaround time for getting the results back for PCR tests is being slowed by the surge in testing.Ĭathy Andrews and her husband Roger said they feel like prisoners in their own home in Virginia Beach as they wait for results to come back. “Otherwise, I had to wait until the middle of January. “I got the first appointment I could find, which was yesterday, January 3,” said Murphy. Some people said they’ve had to wait more than a week just to schedule an appointment at a pharmacy. “There is no availability anywhere in Norfolk or Virginia Beach,” said Carrigan. Appointments to get tested are also in high demand. They said they quickly sold out of the kits Tuesday morning.īut at-home test kits are not the only hot item flying off shelves in recent weeks. News 3 also checked in with Walgreens down the street. The pharmacist said they ran out about two weeks ago and is expecting to get more by the end of the week.
Once Carrigan went inside the 21 st Street Rite Aid in Norfolk, she was met with a sign that read, “We are out of stock of the home COVID test.” “Neither one of those two places know when they’re going to get anymore in, so then I came to Rite Aid.” “I called Walgreens I went to Harris Teeter down the street, their pharmacy they were out,” said the Norfolk resident. Sherri Carrigan is also on the hunt for an at-home COVID test. “I went to about 10 pharmacies nobody had them,” said David Murphy of Norfolk. Pharmacy Manger David Reid said they’re getting more in this Thursday, but CVS and some other pharmacies are limiting the number of kits each customer can buy because of the high demand. – Employees at the CVS on Hampton Boulevard in Norfolk told News 3 they got a box of the at-home COVID-19 test kits on Monday and were all sold out within three hours.
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