Cayuga Health System and Tompkins County Health Department are rising to meet challenges posed by increased demands for COVID-19 testing. Their efforts include a sampling center that opened on March 24 in the parking lot of the Ithaca Mall, replacing a drive-through testing center. MacQueen said that the “next urgent need” is to expand testing capacity in labs. “We heard for a couple of weeks now that testing capacity would be expanded, but so far it hasn’t been,” MacQueen said to the Ithaca Voice. However, Evelyn wrote that Tompkins County is “currently in good shape” for all testing supplies.

Source: Daily Sun April 16, 2020 03:00 UTC