KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The University of Kansas Health System is treating more than 30 patients that tested positive for the Coronavirus, as of Friday.
Along with that, they have drive-up locations, where they collect swabs from patients and send them off to be tested. Patients have to have a prescription to get the swab and be tested.
The locations of these drive-up locations are kept under wraps, due to safety precautions. The reason for these locations are so that people who may have the virus don't step into a public place like a hospital and spread it further.
"So, we do have some drive up locations, and they're busy. We're doing between 50 and 100 of folks a day," Dr. Steven Stites, Chief Medical Officer at the University of Kansas Health System.
The hospital hopes to be able to test many people if they are sick, including first responders.
"The test equipment part of its already here. It's up, installed, working, and it meets all our testing validation criteria," said Dr. Stites. "We're already opening many of the first responders now. But we'll even be more broad around the area because our goal is to, you know, ultimately, we'd love to test as many people as we can. But we just have to make sure our supplies back that statement up."
KU still has 33 patients positive for COVID-19.
