Guys, not sure how to be any plainer about how this works.
It’s a scam. A valuable, worth every penny scam.
You submit to a ”friendly but expensive” covid testing by mail operation. You could spit in a cup a month ahead of travel, but the physician marked receiving it says you submitted the sample the minute and hour fedex dropped it off at their lab. Of course you time that FedEx drop off so it lands there the day before you board the plane. They then run it same day and you have your needed travel documents. The physician marks it that you submitted to testing at 10am, they email you the results with a physicians signature at 8pm that day, you go on safari.
All this back and forth discussion of trying to rely on CVS/Walgreens and a guy down the street is rather exhausting. CVS and the like are government testing centers. Sometimes they work, sometimes they delay. Most wont’ give you a test if they know its for travel.
There is a reason some tests are overnight and $200….because they work for the purpose of getting you on a plane. If you don’t like that option, you can also coutnerfeit a test result in photoshop, there is an entire industry set up now to do that for you for $50 And many travel agents “have a guy” if you are in the mood to commit fraud.
But between outright fraud (fake papers) to risking a safari (using the government assigned testing facility that isn’t designed for travel covid tests with no turnaround guarantee), I suggest You go with the $200 sure-thing that was built as a process to overcome the dumb, shortsighted government travel rules to ensure you get on a plane.