Vehicles lined up an hour and a half ahead of the scheduled start time.
The testing, which was held at the former Health South facility on Covert Avenue in Evansville, was scheduled from 3-7pm.
They needn’t have bothered with an end time. With a hundred tests available, people were being turned away even before the official starting time of three o’clock.
Evansville City Council President Alex Burton was helping with the event. “We wanted a good turnout, but this really shows how bad COVID is affecting Evansville in this moment.”
Vanderburgh County Health Department Administrator Joe Gries says there will be more free neighborhood testing.
Gries said, “Hopefully, maybe even as early as next week, that we’d be able to do that.”
The neighborhood testing came on a day when a record of 42 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in Vanderburgh County.
