This is very good news.

Walgreens to open drive-thru coronavirus testing stations delivering results in under 15 minutes

The nationwide retailer announced on Tuesday its partnership with Abbott Laboratories to offer rapid-result coronavirus tests for patients in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas. The COVID-19 test produced by Abbott can deliver results in 13 minutes. In total, 15 stores will offer the testing services.

Walgreens has yet to announce the exact locations for the drive-thru testing centers but noted that the company had been in talks with the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the best "hot spot" location for the centers to be located. The company noted that 3,000 people per day could be tested in the centers, which could open by the end of the week.

Great news, hopefully these will be in abundance in a month or two. I am envisioning a lifestyle where you and your buddies will head to the testing centers and the liquor stores on Friday afternoons before the weekend.

damn....too late

That is nice and all but what we really need is drive-up antibody testing. When is that starting?

They need to tell us how quickly they can scale above these fifteen stores.

What is their long-term plan and timeline?

Good start.

Same.

I'm shocked at our inability to get above even 150,000 tests per day.

Keegan99 said:

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Same.

I'm shocked at our inability to get above even 150,000 tests per day.

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Edit - Wrong board.

PJYoung said:

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15 stores? The delay in ramping up our testing has been the biggest surprise for me in all of this. By far.

I would've thought a country as capable as ours would've done a much, much better job of scaling up, even after completely screwing up initial testing.

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I guess it's not as easy as it seems...