Dr. Andrew Wallach, the head of New York City’s Health + Hospitals ambulatory care operation, said that their demand for testing has more than doubled over the past few days
Waiting in line at a COVID-19 testing site in Times Square. Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock For many New Yorkers, the best way to enjoy the unseasonably mild on Wednesday was to wait in line to get tested for COVID. With the Omicron variant expected to bring a surge of U.S. cases, socially distant lines snaked outside many coronavirus testing sites throughout the city this week.
With the seven-day average of new cases in the city doubling since Thanksgiving, there are indicators that the virus is lifting off here after a slow ascent since the fall. And while data in the city is currently only available up until December 12, the demand this week suggests a major increase in the COVID-anxious and potentially exposed seeking out tests.
“It’s almost like PTSD from 2020,” said Dr. Andrew Wallach, the head of New York City’s Health + Hospitals ambulatory care operation, where he oversees 17 major city-run testing sites. Speaking with Intelligencer on Wednesday evening, Wallach said that demand for tests has more than doubled over the past few days: “This is not a subtle increase. This is a significant and real increase in demand.
The number of people getting swabbed is growing rapidly in a city humming with pandemic stress. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the crush is going to be as rough as last holiday season, when hours-long waits for tests were routine, waits for results often stretched toward a week, and vaccines were not yet available to the general public.
New York is not the only U.S. city with residents who are anxious that they’ve been exposed to Omicron or another variant. In west Baltimore, PCR appointments are growing more difficult to find and clinics in Cambridge, Massachusetts have also been experiencing higher demand.
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