Hours expanded at 4 El Paso County COVID-19 testing sites
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) The El Paso County Health Department announced the expansion of COVID-19 test site hours. Now all four community sites will be open seven days week.
Almost 500,000 tests have been done in our county since the start of the pandemic, but compared to some regions in our state, our testing rates don’t measure up.
As of now, El Paso County’s testing rate is just over 60,000 tests per 100,000 people.
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health’s website, this doesn’t even place us in the top 19 for testing rates in the state. Officials with the El Paso County health department said though that statistic doesn’t alarm them, the county could be more competitive.