PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania’s Department of Health is working on a plan to open public testing sites for the coronavirus, as the state’s health systems and hospitals work to operate their own sample-taking sites and testing laboratories.
A department spokesman, Nate Wardle, said the agency is in the process of organizing public testing sites, and will announce them when there are locations, times and dates. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is able to test, and Geisinger Health System is testing for its own in-house patients, the department said.
In addition to the Department of Health, there are four private lab companies that are testing specimens, the department said. RELATED COVERAGE: Advertisement Wolf