Los Angeles County’s pick-up COVID-19 test kit program is expanding to more libraries across the region.
The expansion to 14 new county libraries will help make an additional 7,000 free kits available to residents every day.
The program lets residents pick up PCR test kits without appointments, perform the tests at home or in their cars, and then return their samples to the same site for processing.
The samples have to be returned within three to five days of receiving the test kits.
Unlike many at-home tests available at stores, the kits being provided by the county are not rapid antigen tests. Results usually come out within 24-48 hours.
With the new expansion, L.A. County residents in need of a test have 29 pick-up locations to choose from across the county. Test kits are being given out at these locations:
| Obregon Park Memorial Park North Recreation Center San Gabriel Valley Airport San Gabriel Valley Airport Wingate Park MLK Medical Campus Ted Watkins Park Helen Keller Park Poinsettia Recreation Center – Front Lawn Plummer Park Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley Clara Street Park Palmdale Hammack Center College of the Canyons – Santa Clarita Quartz Hill | Rosemead Library West Hollywood Library Lennox Library Lawndale Library San Fernando Library Huntington Park Library Lynwood Library Pico Rivera Library Sunkist Library AC Bilbrew Library Los Nietos Library Norwood Library Acton Agua Dulce South Gate Park |
More information on the program and addresses can be found here.
The kits are being given on a first-come, first-served basis and there’s a limit of one kit per person or two kits for a family.
Anyone can get the tests regardless of health insurance status.
Those who use the tests will be required to register online and follow the instructions inside the package to self-test.
For people who can’t pick up the kits themselves, L.A. County Home Test Collection program sends at-home nasal swab test kits by mail to county residents who have COVID-19 symptoms or think they were exposed to the virus.
Residents can sign up on the Picture by Fulgent Genetics website to order a test kit to be shipped to their home address by FedEx.
Every home in the U.S. can also get four free at-home COVID-19 tests kits that can be ordered online here. Orders usually shipp in 7-12 days.