Statewide task force calls for more COVID-19 testing at trusted venues

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Getting tested astatine trusted venues: Members of a statewide COVID-19 task unit accidental giving tests astatine places radical are acquainted with tin assistance way the dispersed of COVID-19.

COVID-19 investigating has been dependable astatine sites similar the 1 astatine the Clanzel T. Brown Community Center successful Jacksonville.

Bertha Stripling didn’t person symptoms but could’ve been exposed to the virus, truthful got tested determination Thursday.

“I conscionable wanted to beryllium connected the harmless side,” Stripling said.

Keeping up with the demand, members of the Statewide Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Community Education and Engagement Taskforce accidental adding much sites volition besides promote vaccinations and amended radical connected the virus.

“We request to summation our assemblage testing,” Dr. Monique Butler, chief aesculapian serviceman of HCA Healthcare North Florida Division.

“HBCUs ought to beryllium the venue, the trusted venue, due to the fact that radical consciousness bully astir going to venues that they judge in,” said the Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes Jr., president of the task force. “We’re asking besides Edward Waters University successful Jacksonville.”

Stripling said she would spell to that site.

“That’s close successful my neighborhood, truthful that would beryllium large if determination was 1 that close,” she said. “I would similar coming to beryllium tested alternatively of doing at-home tests due to the fact that a batch of radical don’t cognize however to bash it, and if you don’t bash it right, you aren’t getting an close work connected it.”

LIST: COVID-19 investigating sites successful Northeast Florida

The state of Florida connected Thursday released caller guidance for testing, telling radical who don’t person symptoms, there’s nary objective payment for getting tested. But, if you person symptoms and are successful a high-risk group, the guidance says you should get tested.

“If you don’t privation to cognize something’s there, that doesn’t mean it’s not there, truthful being tested is simply a beardown plan,” said Dr. Nancy Wright, a pediatric endocrinology specialist.

Many connected the task unit accidental the lone mode to way this microorganism and mitigate it is to summation assemblage testing.

The president of the task unit says Florida A&M University’s investigating has proven to enactment successful communities. It’s besides implemented a mobile aesculapian portion that has administered much than 300 vaccines and educated hundreds much connected the coronavirus.