Testing Demand Increases Across Colorado As COVID Omicron Variant Spreads Ahead Of Christmas

By Conor McCue, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – With the holidays quickly approaching and the COVID-19 Omicron variant in all but five states, the demand for testing is increasing across Colorado. For hours Monday, the line to get a PCR test slowly snaked its way through the parking lot at George Washington High School, one of 25 metro area testing sites run by COVIDCheck Colorado.

“It was really slow,” said Levi Gillis. “When I got tested over the summer, it took like ten or five minutes, but it took an hour plus this time.”

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