DETROIT (WWJ) – The city of Detroit will be home to Michigan’s first COVID-19 Test to Treat center, city officials announced on Monday.
Test to Treat, a nationwide program, is available at the Joseph Walker Williams Center on Rosa Parks Boulevard, offering free, on-site testing, evaluation and antiviral pills for those who test positive.
The Detroit Health Department is partnering with the state to expand testing and treatment services in the city as cases begin to rise again across the state.
Those who test positive at the center can be evaluated and receive the antiviral pills, which officials say are 90% effective at preventing severe disease, but only if COVID-19 is caught within five days of the onset of symptoms.
If other treatments are needed, referrals will be made to local partners.
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Denise Fair Razo, the Detroit Health Department’s Chief Public Health Officer, says providing the Test to Treat program is “directly in line with our goal of ensuring that Detroiters have easy access to all of the life-saving COVID-19 tools available to keep them safe and protected from severe illness or hospitalization.”
“Understanding available treatment options to manage COVID-19 if you test positive is important in preventing symptoms from getting worse”, said Dr. Robert Dunne, Detroit Health Department Acting Medical Director. “This is one more tool in helping us reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by quickly getting people the treatment they need.”
The program is available at the Joseph Walker Williams Center at 8431 Rosa Parks Boulevard from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Monday-Friday.
For more information about COVID-19 including testing and vaccination sites in Detroit, call 313-876-4444 or detroitmi.gov/health.
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