Drive Through Tent Testing
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My organization is looking into drive through testing for the COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically are any other organizations conducting any POCT in tents (Flu or Strep A) or are you only collecting the swabs and then running the tests inside the clinic or sending it to the lab? If you are using POCT in the tents what is your process?
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Anastasia
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Hello,
I am assisting with our organizations drive-thru covid testing sites. We are no longer performing rapid flu at these sites as this is no longer a recommendation, only collecting NP swab and sending for covid testing at a commercial lab.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Raychel
At this point we are only collecting swabs in the tents, then sending them to our Core Lab to be tested for Covid. Flu/RSV testing is either in the hospital labs or the ER UC lab, or they are also sent to the Core Lab. There is talk of doing the Covid testing at the hospital labs, but no decision yet.
Only triage and specimen collection in the tents. Swabs are being sent to a reference lab until Micro can bring it up in-house.