In what is slated to be the first of many stops across the Bay Area, a mobile coronavirus testing lab has been set up outside the Stonestown Galleria shopping center in San Francisco.
It’s called a rapid testing mobile lab, where people can literally walk up, register and then enter a large black van about the size of an RV for a coronavirus test.
What’s different from this site and others is test results are available very quickly - not in days, but 15 minutes.
Carbon Health operates the mobile lab, positioned in Stonestown’s theater parking lot.
“We realized that coronavirus wasn’t just a big city problem, that smaller cities (and) smaller communities needed access to fast and effective coronavirus testing,” Carbon Health Co-Founder Caesar Djavaherian said. “So what we did was put together a staff, a mobile clinic, to go to other cities in the Bay Area to provide more and rapid testing.”
Our mobile #COVID19 Testing clinic is officially open for business at Stonestown Galleria (in parking lot next to Regal UA Theatre)! We're working to expand capacity due to high demand. Applauding our medical team from the sidelines -- By appointment only: https://t.co/bXui7Sh5VI pic.twitter.com/FQ5pb3piNi
— Carbon Health (@CarbonHealth) April 15, 2020Djavaherian told KCBS Radio they plan to take it to cities across the Bay Area.
“We tried to think back and think through how technology can make this experience better for both the patient and the provider,” Djavaherian said. “Part of that is that results come through the technology platform to providers in a timely way, rather than having to search for it.”
The mobile lab will be in place at Stonestown through this Friday, with stops in Redwood City, Fremont, Novato and Napa to follow.
