Mass Covid testing begins for Bills' playoff game: 'It was quick. It was easy.'
By Maki Becker
News Staff Reporter
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Staff from BioReference Laboratories collect samples from Bills fans with tickets to Saturday's playoff game at a drive-up Covid-19 testing site in a parking lot outside Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.
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Susan Mascia and her son, Christopher got Covid-19 tests at a drive-up testing site in a parking lot outside Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Susan's husband Robert (Chris's father) passed away in October and the family is attending the game in his honor. Chris will be using his late father's season ticket.
On the 312th day of the Covid-19 pandemic – and just three days before the first Buffalo Bills home playoff game in a quarter century – a grand experiment unfolded Wednesday in a sprawling parking lot across Abbott Road from Bills Stadium.
Staff from BioReference Laboratories collect samples from Bills fans with tickets to Saturday's playoff game at a drive-up Covid-19 testing site in a parking lot outside Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.
Susan Mascia and her son, Christopher got Covid-19 tests at a drive-up testing site in a parking lot outside Bills Stadium in Orchard Park, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Susan's husband Robert (Chris's father) passed away in October and the family is attending the game in his honor. Chris will be using his late father's season ticket.