Long Lines For COVID-19 Testing Seen Across Southern California

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — What year is it again? Long queues of cars waiting hours for a COVID-19 test were seen all over Southern California Monday, a flashback to troubling images seen early in the pandemic.

A holiday season of widespread travel and gatherings unfortunately coincided with the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, which health experts say is much more efficient at infecting even fully vaccinated and boosted people, leading to high demand for COVID-19 tests required to get back to work and school.

In Boyle Heights, a white tent served as a staging area for testing, while cars lined up again at Dodger Stadium for a test – both ominous flashbacks to the pre-vaccine pandemic. In Baldwin Park, a long line of cars was seen queued up on the top of Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park medical center. Further out in La Palma, there was nearly a mile-long line of cars waiting to get a COVID test.

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