Mayor
Eric Adams announced the country’s first mobile “test-to-treat”
program, allowing people to get tested and treated for COVID-19 at the same
time.
Mobile
testing units will now welcome a clinician on board that can prescribe
anti-viral medication to those with COVID-19, including those who just tested
positive at the site.
Those
with COVID-19 will receive Paxlovid, a prescription oral antiviral drug that
reduces the risk of hospitalization and death for people with the virus.
So
far, three mobile units are participating, with 30 expected to be accessible by
the end of July.
They’ll be located
outside pharmacies across the city, with one of the three initial locations
located outside the Burke Avenue Pharmacy. For the full list of locations,
click
here.