Many individuals across the nation are having to attend in lengthy strains to get examined for COVID-19, however one Texas lady needed to wait three days to obtain her take a look at.

Barbara Battee was not too long ago profiled by native information stations as a result of prolonged wait instances that she, her son and her grandkids needed to endure in an effort to get a coronavirus take a look at. The group reportedly waited three days on the Sure No Covid testing web site in Waco, Texas. Every day, Battee and the remainder of her group would wait from six and a half to seven and a half hours.

"It is like going to Lake Waco throughout the summer time," Battee informed native information station KWTX 10, "simply pack your ice chest, your espresso and your lunch."

The primary two days that the group drove to the testing web site resulted in them getting turned away, KWTX reported. Nevertheless, the location supervisor urged to them to line up at 5 a.m. the following day, though they have been already greeted with round 70 different automobiles in entrance of them after they arrived.

"Possibly 1 p.c of automobiles left and acquired out of line, nevertheless it was just one p.c as a result of all of us want the take a look at," Battee defined to KWTX.

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A lady in Waco, Texas, needed to wait to get a COVID take a look at for 18 hours throughout three days. Above, well being care staff accumulate nasal swab samples at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing web site in El Paso, Texas, on January 12.Photograph by Paul Ratje/AFP by way of Getty Pictures

Finally, nevertheless, the group did get the exams they wanted, KWTX added. Three out of 4 relations examined constructive for COVID-19.

The household's constructive take a look at outcomes aren't shocking given current will increase in COVID circumstances within the state.

Based on the Texas Well being and Human Companies, 59,268 new circumstances have been reported within the state on Thursday, with Waco's county of McLennan at the moment reporting 47,815 complete confirmed circumstances. Round 117 individuals have been additionally reported to have died from the virus within the state on Thursday.

"New circumstances are skyrocketing. COVID has by no means unfold this quick in Texas," wrote the Texas Division of State Well being Companies in a Fb submit on Wednesday. "Hospitalizations rising quickly. Fatalities growing."

Allegations of pandemic mishandling have mirrored poorly on the present Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Not too long ago, a Texas Court docket of Appeals dominated that he couldn't implement a ban on masks mandates anyplace is the state regardless of his efforts to take action. He's additionally in peril of shedding the Republican nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial major, in line with a new Paradigm Companions ballot displaying that he solely has the help of 32.52 p.c of Republican voters within the state.

Regardless of COVID-related stresses and the huge backup seen on the varied testing websites round Waco and different components of Texas, Battee doesn't lay any blame on the location's workers members, even when she discovered her ordeal depressing.

"It is actually nobody's fault," she mentioned to KWTX. "I've nothing however nice issues to say about these staff—they're spending the day on the market away from their households, they usually're doing the very best they will."