Originally Posted by ecm56
I have been googling, reading, and saving information about locations performing testing for purposes of travel. A word of warning to those who are just getting into this as they plan to travel - these locations are appearing and disappearing frequently. As our trip to the USVI grows closer, I went back to a number of the practices that I had bookmarked over the last 60 days or so and found that several were not performing testing for the general public any longer. The positive news (for us) is that an urgent care practice near us just began testing this week and the CVS pharmacies near us are now testing. CVS takes appointments for three days (today, tomorrow, day-after-tomorrow) for fixed time slots that appear to be 10 minutes apart, cost $139 if out-of-pocket. CVS is doing a nasal swab PCR and reports a 2 to 4 day turn-around.


Before relying on CVS to get your results inside of 4 days I suggest you talk to them and make sure they can actually do this. I had a PCR test with them several weeks ago and the stated turn around time was - as you note - 2 to 4 days. Six days later I got the results. I'm heading down to STT tomorrow. I used a local lab that is actually doing the test processing for the other collection sites. Got the results in 24 hours. So ask around who might be set up to do testing that understands that you are getting the test for travel purposes and absolutely need the results inside the promised time frame.


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