Whatcom calls costs of drive-thru testing ‘unsustainable’ — here’s the total bill
It may have been free to the 1,814 people who showed up to be tested, but the four days of Whatcom County’s pilot COVID-19 low-barrier, drive-thru testing program at Bellingham’s Civic Stadium the past two weekends cost the county an average of about $70 per test.
And that’s not counting the long hours nearly 50 volunteers worked each day to run the testing site put on by the Whatcom County Health Department and Whatcom Unified Command.
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