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More virus-test sites opening across northern Pennsylvania

Drive-through testing sites coming to 9 Walmart parking lots; UPMC Northwest also opening testing site in Venango County

More virus-test sites opening across northern Pennsylvania

Drive-through testing sites coming to 9 Walmart parking lots; UPMC Northwest also opening testing site in Venango County

way have is actually a lot of micro epidemics occurring across the country, and each one has their own drivers and their own reasons. Even though we in the Northeast of written the first wave, that doesn't mean it's over by any any time. Is it going up because we're doing more testing and therefore you're finding cases, or is it going up because you're there's ongoing transmission? And I think there's a combination of both in many other states. Part of it is related, obviously, too, to reopening of. We reopened the economy. There's gonna be more transmission, and there's gonna be more cases. It's not just the numbers used. Look at you want to look at the proportion of tests are coming back positive. So it means that you're testing more and you're finding more, which means there's more there to be found. I mean, this has been particularly suggested in Arizona and some of the states that we're concerned about it and Arizona in Arkansas and in Texas. We actually seeing this testing positivity. Rates go up. We're seeing hospitalizations go up, which are very wordings. It might be very hard to determine what is the cause of increasing cases in some locations because at the same time we've had the protests. We've also been in the process we opened, and even before the protests we saw some signs of cases increasing in certain locations as cases are seeing, the key is to diagnose him and to click quickly, stopped them and to quickly contain them because containing the outbreaks is critical in order to prevent further transmission.
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More virus-test sites opening across northern Pennsylvania

Drive-through testing sites coming to 9 Walmart parking lots; UPMC Northwest also opening testing site in Venango County

Gov. Tom Wolf's administration said Monday that more free coronavirus drive-through testing sites will open in Walmart parking lots across northern Pennsylvania as it seeks to expand testing to areas where there is little available.Nine more sites will open Wednesday at Walmart parking lots in Sayre, State College, Edinboro, New Castle, Grove City, Coal Township, Selinsgrove, Lewisburg and Mansfield, the administration said.That brings the total number of free coronavirus drive-through testing sites in Walmart parking lots to 19, it said.The sites will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. People seeking a test must register online a day in advance and must print out a voucher and bring it with them to the testing site.Test results are to be emailed within a day or two, and a physician will call a patient who tested positive, the administration said.Meanwhile, UPMC Northwest also opened a testing site in Reno, in Venango County, open Tuesday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Appointments can be scheduled by calling 1-833-559-7680.

Gov. Tom Wolf's administration said Monday that more free coronavirus drive-through testing sites will open in Walmart parking lots across northern Pennsylvania as it seeks to expand testing to areas where there is little available.

Nine more sites will open Wednesday at Walmart parking lots in Sayre, State College, Edinboro, New Castle, Grove City, Coal Township, Selinsgrove, Lewisburg and Mansfield, the administration said.

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That brings the total number of free coronavirus drive-through testing sites in Walmart parking lots to 19, it said.

The sites will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. People seeking a test must register online a day in advance and must print out a voucher and bring it with them to the testing site.

Test results are to be emailed within a day or two, and a physician will call a patient who tested positive, the administration said.

Meanwhile, UPMC Northwest also opened a testing site in Reno, in Venango County, open Tuesday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Appointments can be scheduled by calling 1-833-559-7680.