Holiday Travelers Are Taking Covid Tests From Those Who Really Need Them A woman is instructed on how to swab her nose by a medical worker at a free COVID-19 testing site in Chelsea, Mass., on July 10, 2020. David Goldman/AP Since Thanksgiving, Dr. Holly Oh has been tackling a trend at her community health center in Dorchester: So many people are booking pre-travel COVID-19 appointments that it has become nearly impossible for patients with symptoms or who have come in contact with a positive case to schedule a test. âItâs really quite maddening,â Oh, the medical director at the Dimock Community Health Center, told GBH News. âWe've had to sort of juggle around and try to figure out how we're going to book people who actually have symptoms. We look at the schedule, and thereâs all these pre-travel and pre-holiday gathering requests.â