Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium Hosts Third COVID-19 Test Site In Four Days

Chantee Lans reports.

ONGOING COVID-19 CRISIS.NATASHA BROWN FOR CBS-3"EYEWITNESS NEWS".BLACK DOCTOR'S COVID-19CONSORTIUM HOSTED A FREETESTING CLINIC TODAY AT ENONETABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH.GROUP'S MOTIVATE TODD PROTESTCONTINUING AND OTHERCOMMUNITIES."EYEWITNESS NEWS" REPORTERCHANTEE LANS REPORTS FROM EASTMT.

AIRY.REPORTER: THERE WAS ACONSTANT FLOW OF VEHICLES WITHPEOPLE DISPLAYING SYMPTOMS,ORGANIZERS SAY THIS SITE WASSET UP TO HELP A COMMUNITYBEING HIT HARD BY COVID-19CHOPPER THREE FLEW OVERHEAD ALONG LINE AS VEHICLES OFPHILADELPHIA RESIDENTS THATWRAPPED AROUND ENONEHUNDREDS SHOWED UP FOR ACOMMUNITY ORGANIZED COVID-19TESTING SITE.AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE DYINGFROM CORONAVIRUS INPHILADELPHIA AT A RATE OFABOUT 52 PERCENT.IN OTHER CITIES SOME AS HIGHAS 70 PERCENT.REPORTER: SURGEON ANDHEALTH CARE ADVOCATE DOCTORAYLA STANFORD ORGANIZED BLACKDOCTORS COVID-19 CONNSENIORITY YUM.THE GROUP CHOSE TO SET UPIN THIS EAST MT.

AIRYNEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THEY SAYIT IS WITHIN OF THE HARDESTHIT SIP CODES WITH THE HIGHESTPERCENTAGE OF THE COVID-19POSITIVE RATES AND DEATH.THEY ORDERED THREE ON TESTINGKITS THROUGH THEIR PRIVATEPRACTICES.GROUP RAN OUT BEFORE THE 10:00 A.M.

TO 4:00 P.M.TESTING SITE TIME FRAME.DOCTOR STANFORD SAYS THIS SITEWAS ABOUT BREAKING DOWNBARRIERS.ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES WEHAVE FOUND IN NORTHPHILADELPHIA IS THAT PEOPLEWERE TAKING MULTIPLE BUSES,SUBWAYS, TRAINS TO GET TOTESTING SITES ONLY TO BETURNED AROUND AND AWAY BECAUSETHEY WERE NOT IN A CAR THIS HEWERE ONLY ACCEPTING PEOPLE INCARS AND IN THE PEOPLE ONFOOT.REPORTER: THINKS THIRDTESTING SITE IN THE LAST FOURDAYS.FIRST WAS A MOBILE TESTINGSITE WHERE DOCTORS DROVE TOABOUT 20 RESIDENTS HOME, ONTHURSDAY.THE SECOND SITE WAS ONSATURDAY, AT MILLER MEMORIALBAPTIST CHURCH IN NORTHPHILADELPHIA.TESTING IS FOR ALL AGES BUTONLY FOR THOSE WITH SYMPTOMSOFFER HAVE BEEN IN CONTACTWITH SOMEONE WHO HAS TESTEDPOSITIVE IN THE PAST 14 DAYSNO DOCTORS NOTE NEED.DOCTOR STANFORD SAID FOR HERAND DOZENS OF OTHERVOLUNTEERED THEIR EFFORTS AREA WARNING.IT IS MAGNIFICENT.PEOPLE I WANT TO HUG THEM BUTWE ARE NOT HUGGING.THEY ARE TELLING ME HOWGRATEFUL THEY ARE.HOW PROUD THEY ARE.HOW MUCH THEY APPRECIATE USBEING OUT HERE.IT IS JUST HOW DO I FEEL?I FEEL LIKE I'M DOING WHAT I'MSUPPOSED TO BE DOING.DOCTOR STANFORD SAYS HERGROUP NEEDS MORE PERSONALPROTECTIVE GEAR TO BE ABLE TOCONTINUE TESTING SITES LIKETHESE.SHE SAID THE NEXT ONE WILL BEON WEDNESDAY, AT ATIVE RENTLOCATION.