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Piatt County Students To Be Able to Get Rapid Test for COVID

Thanks to a Piatt County hospital's fundraising arm, students and teachers will have access to rapid testing for COVID starting next week.

 

Mark Fred is the COO and Chief Information Officer for Kirby Medical Center in Monticello and indicates the Kirby Foundation is stepping up to make rapid testing available to all students and teachers in Piatt County schools and Argenta-Oreana.

 

 

According to Monticello Schools Superintendent Dr. Vic Zimmerman, the biggest challenge through the first month-and-a-half has been getting single-symptom students who have to be sent home tested and those results back in a timely fashion so those kids and teachers can return to school.

 

 

For students that are removed from the classroom setting over a single-symptom, they will receive a form to take to the testing site at the hospital in Monticello or one of the three Kirby locations. Fred says this is a free test so insurance will not be a requirement for anyone tested.

 

 

As more testing is done on the Monticello student population, Dr. Zimmerman says it stands to reason there will likely be more cases of COVID found but he also points out they have found almost all of their kids removed for single-symptom reasons they are coming back negative.

 

 

As of Monday of this week, Monticello Schools had only one case among their students and one case among their teachers. Testing for students at Kirby Medical Center will be available Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm then 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. 

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