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Collected Item: “COVID-19 Testing”

Give your story a title.

COVID-19 Testing

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram post

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is an Instagram post by medrite_springfieldnj. This is a PSA welcoming people to get free COVID testing. It says that no appointments necessary and walk-ins are welcome. Since the start of the pandemic, rapid testing and PCR tests have become more available and free of charge in many places. The reason many of these are free is due to state and federal governments subsidizing the costs of the tests, in addition to people volunteering to help them get done.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Springfield, New Jersey, public health, PCR test, rapid test, COVID test, healthcare, PSA, HST580, ASU

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

medrite_springfieldnj

Give this story a date.

2022-04-11
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