Long line moving through Whatcom’s now open low-barrier drive-thru testing site Friday

Whatcom County’s new drive-thru COVID-19 test site, which removes the barrier of first getting a doctor’s order to be tested, is now open, after a long line of cars had formed early Friday, July 10.

Cars are now moving into the parking lot at Civic Athletic Complex, but a line of 22 cars had formed an hour before the testing opened at 9:30 a.m. and grew to more than 50 by 9:15 a.m. The line was more than 100 cars long approximately an hour after testing opened.