There’s an across the country shortage of coronavirus test packages. But at least in the states of Colorado and Connecticut and at the University of Washington, the limited tests offered are being administered in a somewhat smarter fashion: by means of drive-thru.
On Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment opened the state’s first drive-up coronavirus screening center in a parking area in east Denver. The state says the tests are being administered totally free so long as people have a photo ID and a doctor’s note purchasing the treatment.
More than 160 people were tested on the very first day, and lines on Thursday stretched into the series of three to four hours.
Please remember to bring a doctors note to get tested.
— Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (@CDPHE) March 12, 2020
According to the Colorado health department, the state has 44 presumptive favorable cases of COVID-19, most of them clustered in Aspen and the Denver metro location.
Similar efforts are underway in Connecticut, where the H