{"id":65171,"date":"2020-03-24T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coronavirus-testing-site-to-reopen-wednesday-in-durango\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T02:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T02:14:42","slug":"coronavirus-testing-site-to-reopen-wednesday-in-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coronavirus-testing-site-to-reopen-wednesday-in-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus testing site to reopen Wednesday in Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=558e9e96-4fa3-475a-b374-ae2ea07b9985&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1039\" alt=\"San Juan Basin Public Health will reopen a drive-thru coronavirus testing site Wednesday for select people at risk of the disease.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan Basin Public Health will reopen a drive-thru coronavirus testing site Wednesday for select people at risk of the disease.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Another round of drive-thru testing for the coronavirus on select individuals is scheduled for Wednesday in Durango, according to San Juan Basin Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>SJBPH will run limited testing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the drive-thru testing site at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is not open for all members of the public. Instead, testing will be focused on high-risk individuals, such as those in health care, first responders, seniors who have underlying health issues and those with a doctor\u2019s order. And people must be showing COVID-19 symptoms, such as fever, cough and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n<p>The limited testing, health officials say, will help efforts to understand what segments of the population the virus is affecting, a preferred alternative in light of the lack of testing kits to perform widespread tests.<\/p>\n<p>SJPPH <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/318944\">opened the drive-thru site Friday and Saturday<\/a>, testing about 70 people. The health department plans to use a remaining 30 tests Wednesday. It\u2019s unknown when results will arrive, health officials say, because of the backlog at processing labs.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County had its <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/319107-first-covid19-case-reported-in-la-plata-county\">first confirmed case of coronavirus announced on Monday<\/a>, though health officials believe the disease is in the community and spreading, and the lack of confirmed cases is because of a shortage of test kits.<\/p>\n<p>People who meet the criteria are asked to call 385-8700 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to schedule a testing time for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meet criteria are asked to scheduled appointment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,2035,29,668,686],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-la-plata-county-fairgrounds","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health","tag-san-juan-basin-health-department"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65171"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}