MIAMI VALLEY — The Greene County Public Health pop-up COVID-19 test site was one of many we’ve seen throughout the Miami Valley lately.
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“When we do these pop ups we want people to come out and utilize whats available so it’s good to see people out to get tested,” said Greene County Deputy Health Commissioner, Noah Stuby.
Recently, Mercer County Health District told News Center 7 that someone who had shown symptoms for COVID-19 at a testing site, but had not been tested, received a letter stating that their test results had come back positive.
In a media release, they said physicians will diagnose patients experiencing symptoms as ‘probable’ positive cases even if the patient refuses a test, leaving many people skeptical over the accuracy of the information coming from these test sites.
So, News Center 7′s Kayla Courvell asked Stuby about it.
“I know it’s happened at other pop up testing,” Stuby said. “But everything that we’re doing here, we have infrastructure in place to make sure that doesn’t happen here.
Stuby also went into detail about what Greene County Public Health was doing to ensure the results of positive and negative cases were accurately reported from the pop-up test site.
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“We have a dedicated IT person here and the process we use, the lab slips, the checks and balances we use to do that, just our best precautions to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
Greene County Public Health said they had enough tests for more than 1,000 people.
Those who were tested Wednesday will have their results within two to seven days.
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