‘Impossible to Find’: Sacramento Public Library Runs Out Of Thousands Of At-Home COVID Tests In 2 Hours

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With COVID-19 cases rising, at-home tests are successful precocious demand. Sacramento Public Library teamed up with Sacramento County Public Health to manus retired 45,000 escaped at-home kits Wednesday, but they didn’t past long.

The 28 room locations started handing retired the trial kits — each containing 2 tests — astatine 10 a.m. Wednesday. By noon, Sacramento Public Library announced each determination had tally retired of kits.

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“We had nary thought that it was going to spell this fast,” said Cathy Crosthwaite, Deputy Director of Sacramento Public Library.

CBS13 spoke with disappointed radical who showed up to the Central Library successful Downtown Sacramento minutes aft it ran retired of its banal of 900 kits.

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“This is the 2nd room we’ve tried,” said James Sofranko, who was hoping to instrumentality a trial earlier a enactment travel tomorrow.

“They’re conscionable intolerable to find,” his woman Amanda Sofranko told CBS13. “You conscionable benignant of drawback them if you tin get them.”

Cathy Crosthwaite says astatine this point, determination is nary program for the room to administer much escaped tests. She told CBS13 that if Sacramento County Public Health does person much available, “We would emotion to person them truthful we tin marque it hap for the communities we serve.”

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The room says if radical inactive request to beryllium tested for COVID-19, determination are escaped assemblage trial sites. Those details can beryllium recovered here.

CBS13 Staff