Colorado, Connecticut and the University of Washington are using the procedure to a limited degree.
the Hartford Courant reportsThe University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle also introduced a drive-thru test center last Friday. The center has the capacity to administer 40 to 50 tests a day, which are so far limited to UW employees and students.
There are two good reasons to expect to see more drive-thrus like these nationally: They’re efficient, and they reduce health care workers’ unnecessary exposure to the coronavirus. Health care workers are also in limited supply.Health care workers test people for COVID-19 at Colorado's first drive-up testing center in Denver.
“What we’ve learned from viruses like SARS and other coronaviruses is they can really rapidly disseminate through a hospital and cripple a health care workforce,” Dr. Seth Cohen, medical director for infection prevention at UW Medicine,The other major benefit of drive-thrus ― the ability to test large groups of people efficiently ― won’t be fully realized until there are enough test kits to administer to large groups of people.
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