The University of California Los Angeles has joined a growing list of universities that are now providing students with free COVID tests through on-campus vending machines, tests the university says are just as accurate as PCR testing.
A video has gone viral after a student at the University of California Los Angeles shared footage of one of the free COVID test vending machines available on campus.
In the video viewed 1.8M times, TikToker @meili_zzz, whose name is Meili Zhang, showed all the steps it takes to get a test from the vending machine: swipe a card, type in the selection and collect the “spit tests” to take and then deposit at a drop-off site.
In October, UCLA Health reported that there were a dozen vending machines around campus available to students. The self-administered tests use technology “pioneered at UCLA Health.”
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