A large tent to perform COVID-19 testing was placed in the parking lot of the Shrewsbury CVS located at 720 Boston Turnpike (Route 9).
There are no cases of coronavirus COVID-19 infections in the Town of Shrewsbury, according to the local and state government as of March 17th, 2020.
CVS picked the site location based on the size of the parking lot and easy access, and “not for any reason specific to the current or suspected size of coronavirus infected population,” Shrewsbury State Representative Hannah Kane explained in a statement.
According to Rep. Kane, the site isn’t yet open to the general public for testing. By the time it opens, it will “only be for people who have been ordered a test by a medical professional.”
Following, the statement from Rep. Hannah Kane:
“As many of you may have seen, the CVS in #Shrewsbury at 720 Boston Turnpike/Route 9 eastbound has a large tent set up. The White House reached out to CVS to help in the federal effort to expand testing centers and CVS chose locations based on the size of parking lots and ease of egress, NOT for any reason specific to current or suspected size of coronavirus infected population.
Please note: The site is NOT open to the general public for drive up testing. The next few days the center will be focused on a pilot with public safety and healthcare professionals who have been ordered to get a test. When the site is open to broader testing it will ONLY be for people who have been ordered a test by a medical professional and the goal is for it to be by appointment so as to manage the traffic, which will be queued at the UMass parking lot on South Street. CVS is working with our police department and UMass public safety to ensure that traffic flows appropriately to the site.”
For more information and updates about the Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, the Shrewsbury Post recommends checking mass.gov.
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