New bus testing for coronavirus

New bus testing for coronavirus

Learning the specifics of that project.

The hospital said the mobile clinic can test about 50 people per day..

It has either a nurse practitioner or doctor on board.

Huntsville hospital ceo david spillers said the hospital system is working with churches in north huntsville to organize the effort..

Staff on the mobile unit's tested about 100 people in the last two days.

That's about a quarter of the people who have been using the fever and flu clinic on governors drive.

Spillers explined the mobile medical unit is similiar to that clinic - but is set up for those who can't travel to there.

"we coordinated that yesterday with a church in north huntsville they helped identify those people who needed to be tested.

Needed to get there and help get them there.

We collect all that information when we run that test.

And we get those results directly back to the patients based of the information that they give us when the register at our medical mobile unit."

4 positive patients hospitalized in madison county 41 patients awaiting results in the hospital 16 in decatur-morgan hospital 10 in madison county today spillers shared there are 4 coronavirus patients who are hospitalized.

He said he believes all are using ventilators.

Right now, there are 41 other patients in the hospital waiting to find out if they are positive for coronavirus.

Spillers said 16 of those are in decatur morgan hospital.

10 are here in madison county spillers said while they wait for results - nurses and doctors have to use personal protective equipment when interacting with the 41 hospitalized patients.

He said tests for those patients are sent to a private lab at hudson alpha to be processed - because the sooner they get results, the sooner staff can stop using up so much protective gear when interacting with patients who test negative.

Live in huntsville sm waay 31 news.