Some community-based testing sites for coronavirus are planning to close, as the federal government ends support for them on Friday. HHS and FEMA said the program was intended as a stop-gap to bring testing to critical locations.
A health care worker talks with a patient at a COVID-19 testing site in Philadelphia. The site will close Friday when the federal government ends support for this site and others around the country.A health care worker talks with a patient at a COVID-19 testing site in Philadelphia. The site will close Friday when the federal government ends support for this site and others around the country.Some coronavirus testing sites around the U.S.
"It has been a very successful site. We are hoping by the time it closes Friday afternoon that we will have tested a little over 5,000 individuals," says Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, who chairs the commission in the county of more than 825,000 people. Montgomery County has been hit hard by the pandemic. By Tuesday the county identified 1,294 positive cases and
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