HUTCHINSON, Kan. — More information is now available for the mobile testing site that is coming to Hutchinson.
The mobile test site will be in Hutchinson each Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the next three weeks. Hours of operation will be from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. and then again from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. along State Fair Road at the fairgrounds.
The website is doineedacovid19test.com. The website will vet you and then set an appointment. The website also gives you details of how the test will be administered. Here are the details.
- The drive-thru site will test anyone who may be exhibiting symptoms of the virus. In addition, the site is available to all health care workers and first responders, whether or not they are exhibiting symptoms.
- Appointments must be made through eTrueNorth’s online portal at www.DoINeedaCOVID19test.com, which will screen individuals to ensure they meet CDC eligibility for testing. On-site scheduling will be available for those who are not able to schedule online. For questions regarding testing, call 800-635-8611.
- Those being tested will need to stay in their cars for verification of eligibility criteria, ID check and self-administered test. For the safety of all those on-site, the test site is not available to walk-ups; those being tested must be in a car.
- The site will use a self-administered nasal swab test that will allow those being tested to swab their own nose onsite while in their vehicles, observed by a trained medical professional to ensure the sample is taken correctly, and then dropped in the sealed sample into a container on their way out of the drive-through site.
- eTrueNorth, a contractor of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS, will handle processing test samples and communicating results to those tested and applicable Departments of Health.
- The site will be staffed by volunteers, including healthcare professionals and eTrueNorth team members.
- While individuals who are tested are awaiting results, please follow CDC guidelines and take steps to help prevent the virus from spreading to people in your home and community.
The test is limited to those who feel they have one or more symptoms of COVID-19 and are over the age of 18. All first responders and healthcare workers are also eligible. A list of the common symptoms is available on a CDC link that is on the website.