There was massive confusion at one of Long Island’s newly announced COVID-19 testing sites early Monday.
The IBEW Local 25 on Motor Parkway in Hauppauge is scheduled to open Wednesday, but people started showing up at 6:45 a.m. with confirmed appointments for Monday.
They had confirmation emails, text messages and even QR codes for appointments at a facility that still had not opened.
“It’s very frustrating,” said Lake Grove resident Janet Schneck. “Just nobody can get anything right. I don’t understand, I don’t understand it. It’s literally driving me crazy.”
An online portal to make appointments for COVID-19 testing at 13 new locations across New York launched Monday, but neither of the two Long Island locations are not set to open until Wednesday.
Another new facility for testing is set to open at Kennedy Memorial Park on Greenwich Street in Hempstead.
People leaving the Suffolk facility Monday said they don’t know if their confirmed appointments will be honored on another day.
BioReference Laboratories, the company running the site, issued a response to the confusion: