A mass COVID-19 testing and vaccination site returns to the Alario Center in Jefferson Parish. The one-stop-shop testing and vaccination site will be open beginning Monday, August 16, and will operate Monday through Friday from 8 am to 4 pm and Saturday from 8 am to 2 pm.
“We are in a very unfortunate position for our community for the past month, we are averaging about 500 cases a day,” said Sheng. “For perspective, when we go low, in our parish, it is 30 to 60 cases a day.”
The site at the Alario Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd., will offer both COVID-19 drive-thru testing site and a walk-up vaccination site. The vaccines offered will be Pfizer and Johns & Johnson.
Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng made the announcement Thursday at the Alario Center in Westwego.
She was joined by Dr. Hebert-Magee with LDH, Dr. Kline and Dr. Elder with LCMC Health, Dr. Laborde with Ochsner Health, as well as the Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Cvitanovich and other Parish leaders to give an update on the state of Jefferson Parish amid a fourth COVID surge.
From the start of the pandemic, the Alario Center hosted a mass drive-thru COVID testing site up until two months ago, when it was scaled back and moved to Harold McDonald Park.
