BERKELEY, Calif. - Demand for COVID tests has spiked with some clinics fully booked for the PCR tests and stores selling out of at-home antigen tests as people try to take safety precautions ahead of holiday travel and gatherings. "We just wanted to get tested in advance of the holidays and getting together with family," said Jenny Flores of Berkeley.Flores and her daughter Angie went to a mobile COVID testing site in downtown Berkeley for a free PCR test."They just give you the little swab and then you just do it yourself," said Angie, a third grader. "It was fine.
I mean, it doesn't really hurt."President Biden announced a plan Tuesday to increase testing sites and spend money to secure 500 million at-home COVID antigen tests to.