It shouldn’t be this hard to find a COVID test in Dallas | Opinion
Two days before Christmas our families shared a meal together. We sang songs at the piano and played board games. No one suspected COVID-19. We wouldn’t have even tested, except for the airplane flight the next day.
Private Provider B, recommended by the Dallas County website, offers free testing at two drive-up locations. Provider B also required a long wait and a lot of paperwork. One of us made an online appointment for 1 p.m., only to show up and learn that the two overworked men at the site were on lunch break. An hour later, the line of parked cars winding through the coned parking lot indicated that no one else got the message either.
An efficient solution would be to create a state regulatory agency to give power to known and trusted institutions that have long demonstrated that they are worthy of the public trust. We would like to see an agency or university charged with making a map of where you can get tested, what the current waitlist looks like, how much the testing costs, and when customers can expect results, based on data instead of empty promises.
Some will doubt that the state should be involved in Texas, on principle. But the state is actually the entity doing the best work of all in Texas as it is. In Dallas, the state medical school — UT Southwestern — has been one of the most reliable providers of vaccination and testing to Texans, both insured and uninsured, with relatively little paperwork and low wait times.
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