Medical Community Teaming Up to Fight COVID-19 

Healthcare partners in the greater Tallahassee area are coming together to fight COVID-19.

On this day, one of our registered nurses Yvonne Parker is providing clerical assistance.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare opened the site on March 18th. Since then, nearly 600 people have had what is called a nasopharyngeal swab or culture.

Drive through sample collection is one way to mitigate the spread of the virus by allowing people to remain in their vehicles without exposing others to infection.

While the site at the Northwood Centre parking lot is not a drive-through testing site, it is a centralized sample collection site for patients who have been ordered by their doctor to get a COVID-19 test.

The site is now open Monday through Friday from 11am until 6pm.

Only those who are symptomatic and meet the criteria set forth by the Florida Department of Health are being tested.

Early on in testing for COVID-19, people were getting both a nasal and an oral swab because doctors did not know which would be most reliable, but because of swab shortages the test now involves doing just a single swab of the nose. Other countries are following the same procedure.

For the most up-to-date information available on COVID-19 visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/

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