"It's not a matter of resources in terms of test kits, it's just that the demand for testing has gone up exponentially in the past few weeks," he said. Stephen Mansfield, director of the Ledge Light Health District in eastern Connecticut, told The Day that turning people away "has not been uncommon and unfortunately it will likely be common in the future." In Waterford, for example, a weekly drive-thru testing site at the local library on Wednesday had to turn people away because the line had gotten too long and became a traffic hazard, The Day of New London reported.
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Officials from the city of Bridgeport on Wednesday urged residents to get a free test at the North Branch Library and not wait in long lines at other locations.
New Haven officials also opened a second saliva testing site on the New Haven Green, in addition to other existing testing locations in the city. Staff at a lab in Connecticut are working 12-hour shifts to meet the increased demand for COVID test results ahead of the holidays. Merline Jimenez administers a COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab to a person at a testing site located in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid a surge in Omicron variant cases on Decemin Los Angeles, California. Unvaccinated residents of the state are about five times as likely as vaccinated individuals to contract COVID, and about 20 times more likely to die from it, according to state health department data published in The Day, a New London, Connecticut newspaper. Just over 69 percent of Connecticut residents were vaccinated as of Dec. "For us, the most important gift we think that you can give anyone right now is the gift of a negative test," Kidd said Wednesday during a news conference. Kidd is also one of two scientists that helped develop a saliva test that is being rolled out at two New Haven locations. Mark Kidd, director of Wren Laboratories, where the staff is working 12-hour shifts, said demand has "exploded" for tests as people prepare to gather for the holidays. Johns Hopkins is reporting that the rolling average of daily new cases in the state has increased by 925 the past two weeks, 59 percent higher than prior weeks. State data released Wednesday showed over 3,600 new positive cases since Tuesday in Connecticut. To meet the continuously rising demand for COVID tests as cases increase around the country, staff at a Connecticut lab have been working 12-hour shifts to process tests and get results out to people as fast as possible.
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