![]() Drivers will then follow queues once in the testing site.The traffic cone patter directs drivers through the former IRS site and across Johnson Street to the parking lot where tests are conducted.The entrance starts on the north side of the IRS campus at RiverCenter Boulevard between Johnson Street and Madison Avenue.Officials say to navigate the testing site by following the signs. “In order to keep as many people off the surface streets as possible, we’ve begun to utilize the IRS lot as a queue.” “The new route was created to help alleviate some of the traffic backups we’ve been experiencing during the current surge in testing,” Covington Assistant Police Chief Brian Valenti said in a release. It also utilize the entire former IRS campus. Officials say the new entrance on RiverCenter Boulevard, near the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, incorporates a traffic pattern that closes off a city block at Johnson Street between Third and Fourth Streets. I’m just really excited and passionate, and maybe a little bit in denial, but it’s amazing how people are in times of need.The Gravity Diagnostics COVID-19 testing site in downtown Covington has a new entrance, city officials said Monday. And I’ve received no federal funding, no state funding, no city funding, nothing. “But it’s the little things I like to focus on like gloves or buying lunch for employees. He wants people to know it’s a complicated time with a lot of moving parts. Headlines are abuzz about long turnaround times for tests, and he, too, is frustrated by shortages, but there are still positives in the midst of all the chaos. ![]() That’s where Remington wants to focus now. Thermo Fisher, an instrument manufacturer, has also been an amazing partner, he said. Medtronic, a medical device company where Remington had worked previously, shipped over even more. But CTI, a neighboring clinical research and consulting company, sent gloves. Gravity’s biggest challenge, like for many others, has been securing protective gear for its staff. But several neighboring businesses have stepped in to help. Gravity Diagnostics, like many others in the health care space, is running low on supplies like. You need hundreds of labs like Gravity to step up to fill the gap.” “Companies like Quest and LabCorp, they’ve said the most they’re able to do is 20,000 a day. ![]() Right now, it’s bigger than us, and we feel motivated to do our part,” he said. “In a normal time, this would be an exciting thing it would be something we’d be celebrating. ![]() Gravity has been approached by a number of big hospitals, government and private companies, but, right now, demand far outweighs supply. He was working on ways to staff crews over the weekend in an effort to do more. While turnaround time will likely slow as volumes increase, Remington still hopes to report results in 48 hours. All of which were reported back to clinicians by the end of the day.
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