They told me I needed an appointment,” Martinez said.
Martinez and her family wound up at a pop up clinic in a parking lot off Balboa Avenue, where workers say testing has increased dramatically over the past several weeks. Three and a half weeks ago, four weeks ago, it was five to 15 people in a day, sometimes five in a day. Now, yesterday, it was 72, said William Little.
County sites are seeing the same type of demand.
At one in Linda Vista Tuesday, a sign out front read no more walk-ins.
County wide, during the month of July, the daily number of COVID tests fluctuated from a low of 3,621 July 6 to a high of 15,142 July 29.