As COVID-19 numbers climb, several state senators want testing capacity to increase. Lincoln State Senator Adam Morfeld is calling on personal experience.
Morfeld tells KLIN News, “I was sick with the flu two weeks ago. At that point in time I was too sick to go wait in line and wait an hour or two to be able to go get the test. Luckily, I had a leftover at-home test I was able to take. There are some folks either too sick with the flu or something else to go to the drive-thru and wait for a two hours. And two, there are folks in rural Nebraska where that is not an option.
Morfeld is advocating for more resources to be used to expand test locations so people don’t have to wait for hours. He would also like to be able to send tests to people in rural and urban areas who don’t have easy access to a test location or are too sick to be out and about.
“We have received millions of dollars in federal funds, ” says Morfeld. He would like to see that money to to expanded testing.
This is especially important now as testing is up due to the spread of the Omicron variant. Long lines have been reported at several testing locations.