Gothamist reports:
Thousands of New Yorkers lined up at sites in each borough hoping to score one of the coveted at-home COVID-19 test kits the city distributed ahead of the holidays.
Five pop-up locations opened Thursday and another five are scheduled to open Friday morning. Vince Mola cackled with happiness after receiving a free kit. “It’s glee, it’s relief and astonishment,” Mola said.
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“It’s glee, it’s relief and astonishment… I feel like I’m in the Soviet Union in the 1970’s. These are our new bread lines …There is something terribly wrong in the richest country in the world when this is like our Christmas present.”https://t.co/i2plCdyKGk
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) December 23, 2021