COVID-19 drive thru testing doubles in Lincoln Hts.

The Lincoln Heights Health Center is one of several recent "pop up" drive thru COVID-19 test sites that have provided free, no appointment necessary testing across town to help curb the spread of the virus.

POPPING UP ALL OVER THETRISTATE..

TESTS ARE NOWMAKING IT TO COMMUNITIESHARDEST HIT BY THE VIRUS.BUT,WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO GETHAMILTON COUNTY OUT OF THE RED.WCPO 9 NEWS REPORTER LISASMITH WENT TO ONE TESTLOCATION IN LINCOLN HEIGHTSWHERE THE HEALTH CENTER LEADERBELIEVES MORE HOT SPOTS ARE ONTHE WAY.LINES OF CARS WITH PEOPLEWAITING TO GET TESTED FORCOVID-19."I'm hopeful that the moreinformed people are on theirstatus, then the more we canstart seeing a slowdown in thespread and that we see livesbesaved."LOCAL HEALTH ADVOCATES HAVEBEEN PUSHING FOR MORE TESTINGFOR MONTHS..

PARTICULARLY INCOMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

ONELOCATION THAT IS ALSO NOWSEEING DRIVE UP TESTING IS THELINCOLN HEIGHTS HEALTHCENTER..

PART OF THEHEALTHCARE CONNECTION."I think that still there isso much information out therethat people are not sure whatto do and where to go and howto make it happen forthemselves."DOLORES LINDSAY FOUNDED THEHEATLH CENTER 53 YEARS AGO.SHE SAYS THE TEST SITE HASSEEN POSITIVE CASES.

THECENTER SERVES RESIDENTS FROM23 HAMILTON COUNTYCOMMUNITIES..

INCLUDING TWOHOT ZIP CODES 45240 AND45231."We know that there are manymore out there.

We know thatbecause of the conditions thatsome of our patients livein""This location has seen driveup testing double in twoweeks.

Now, they want totarget testing for areas theythink will be the next hotspots.""Lockland, particularly, webelieve is probably going tobe the next quote-unquote hotspot."SPRINGDALE IS ANOTHER AREATHEY'REWATCHING."Because we know that that'swhere a lot of the minoritypopulation that we serve live.And, we know that they live inmultgenerationalhousing."MEANWHILE..

THE TESTING ISDONE IN COLLABORATION WITHTRIHEALTH... ON SUNDAYAFTERNOONS FROM 2 TO 5 THROUGHAUGUST 16TH.

AFTER THAT..THEY'LL EVALUATE THEIR NEXTMOVE."We gave it about two monthsor so to see, okay what arethe numbers in terms of howmany people are accessing thesite, let's look to see thepositive cases, who's comingin."LS WCPO 9 NEWS