The UVA Health System is providing outreach testing for covid-19 to our community members.
We’re trying to reach populations that have traditionally not had as good access to covid
testing so we're going out to several different community sites including Church of the Incarnation
off Rio Road and Mount Zion First African Baptist Church near the IX building.
In addition to two additional sites on Wednesday and Thursday that are often determined by
communities in need.
So, we’re doing about 300 tests per week, about a hundred at each of three to four sites.
We’ve especially set up these testing sites for community members as opposed to students
or employees of UVA trying to reach areas that have traditionally not had access to
good covid testing because of potential barriers to coming in for testing either fear of contracting
the virus or just traditional barriers to access.
And what we're finding in particular the Latin X population has had a higher rate of positivity
than some of our other neighbors so we'd like to be able to identify hotspots that we can
help with social distancing and other interventions or wraparound services.
Things like providing cleaning supplies, sometimes food, help with medical bills or medicines.
Also working with employers to help them understand when patients who test positive can come back
to work which is so important for folks.
So, if you're having any difficulty accessing community covid testing we’d really love
to see you out at our sites.
You can see where we're testing through the Virginia Department of Health website and
we are very excited to help the community with covid-19 testing.