Coronavirus testing site opens at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds

One of the states 80 coronavirus testing sites now up and running at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.

State's 80 coronavirus testing sites now up and running at the silver dollar fairgrounds in chico.

Action news now reporter mackenzie drigo show us what this means as we work to move out of coronavirus restrictions.

Yes they're testing people here at silver dollar fairgrounds, to get tested you will go right inside harvest hall behind me, they can test up to 130 people a day.

Take pkg nat "do you have any symptoms?"

Keara pierce is on the frontlines of the coronavirus battleãtesting people to see if they have the disease right now.

Sot keara pierce- covid19 nurse- doing the testing we're not doing antibody testing.

Sot danette york- public health director of butte county "it is a viral test which means it test for covid right now, if they have the virus it will show positive, versus an antibody test, so we do not have antibody test at this site at this time but we do anticipate that if we find a good antibody test that we can use in the future optimum serve will be able to switch to that," public health director of butte county- danette york says anyone can get tested but you have to make an appointment through www.lhi.care/ covidtesting.com (show website) sot danette york- public health director of butte county "it will ask you what time frame you would like to come, and its typically hour blocks," york says you do not need insurance and the testing is free.

Amy abdelhalim optimum serve admin: "they just need their patient id number and date of birth, no id is actually necessary," sot emt don't know his name l "real easy, walked right in when it was my time they kept us 6 feet apart," standup "im going to going to be tested for covid19 right now, (broll of me getting the test) pierce asked me a few questions and walked me through the entire process to make sure that i felt comfortable- pierce talking while giving me the test- the best thing i can tell you to do is breathe, removing the swab, how did that feel?

It wasn't too bad, my eyes watered a little but it was durable," sot forest harlan "are you scared to know if you are positive or negative?

Whats your feelings?

Bad grammar delete) no i think information is the best way to calm that fear," york says you should get your results in 48 hours sot york "individuals can go online afterward to see the results, but if it comes up positive, someone from optium will actually call them they also, notify the public health departments of all positives and negatives" look live tag they'll notify public health about any positives so they can do a contact investigation,"in chico mackenzie drigo action news now coverage you can count on.

# york tells action news now they plan to stay at the fairgrounds for two months and will be open from monday through friday 7 am to 7 pm.

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