Apple Maps now shows coronavirus testing locations in the US

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Apple opened up a web portal for hospitals and labs to submit information about COVID-19 testing locations earlier this month.
On Tuesday, COVID-19 testing locations began appearing on Apple Maps in the US.
Some locations are providing COVID-19 diagnostic tests as well as antibody tests.
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There are countless hurdles we’ll need to overcome before we can expect life to return to normal, and one of them is testing as many people as we possibly can. The more people who are tested, the more data we have, and those who test positive can self-isolate to ensure that they don’t infect anyone else. And while we may never scale up to test as many Americans as we should be testing on a daily basis, the capacity has been expanding rapidly.

But despite the flood of testing in the US in recent days, knowing whether or not you should be tested and where you should go to get tested is still disappointingly nebulous, and will probably change depending on who you call. There is good news, though. As of Tuesday afternoon, COVID-19 testing locations are being displayed on Apple Maps, which should take some of the guesswork out of the operation for those who need to get tested.

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