People in Jacksonville line up for COVID-19 tests as omicron variant spreads

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With the dispersed of the omicron variant and the holidays astir the country -- galore radical successful Jacksonville were getting tested for COVID-19 Wednesday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With the dispersed of the omicron variant and the holidays astir the country -- galore radical successful Jacksonville were getting tested for COVID-19 Wednesday.

Doctors promote you to get tested for COVID-19 to support you and your family. News4JAX spoke with Bobby Livatt who got tested successful Jacksonville astatine the Lane Wiley tract said he’s doing it arsenic a precaution.

News4JAX didn’t spot overmuch of a unreserved astatine Avecina Medical connected Normandy Wednesday, but adjacent doorway astatine the CVS, a enactment of cars drove up to the model -- the bulk of them with radical getting tested.

Not galore of them wanted to speech astir investigating -- oregon the caller ascent successful COVID-19 cases. The omicron variant is making waves -- immoderate probe shows it spreads faster and is little severe, but tin inactive capable hospitals.

“Well I don’t cognize but I’m conscionable trying to marque definite I’m taking attraction of myself and taking attraction of the children,” Livatt said.

If you trial affirmative for COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control urges you to abstracted yourself from others, deterioration a mask, and cleanable your hands often. Don’t stock household items with radical successful your location and disinfect your surfaces daily.

If you are afloat vaccinated you don’t request to quarantine aft coming successful interaction with idiosyncratic who had COVID unless you person symptoms. You should get tested 5-7 days aft vulnerability and deterioration a disguise successful nationalist for 14 days oregon until you find retired your trial was negative.

While we whitethorn beryllium anxious to travel unneurotic for the holidays -- it has to beryllium done safely for the involvement of your family. Click here for a database of investigating sites successful Jacksonville.

Some assemblage centers are closed Thursday and Friday for the Christmas holiday. They’ll reopen connected Monday.

You tin effort to find an at-home trial kit, but they are successful precocious demand, and chains similar Walgreens and CVS person acquisition limits.