Loudoun Medical Group, a Northern Virginia physician group with of 330 healthcare providers serving in 150 physician office locations, will resume operation of its centralized COVID-19 testing in Leesburg, beginning Thursday, Jan. 7.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, LMG has completed COVID-19 testing events for about 20,000 individuals, private and governmental entities, ranging from pediatrics to adults, and those with special needs.
“We have been monitoring the COVID-19 crisis closely and have organized centralized testing in response to a lack of readily available tests for our patients,” said Dr. Kevin O’Connor, chairman of LMG’s Board of Directors.
Testing willbeconducted by appointment only for current LMG patients with an order from an LMG provider, first responders, pre-operative patients for the Loudoun Ambulatory Service Center, and Inova Loudoun Hospital staff members. The testing will take placeona “drive-through” basis in the parking lot adjacent to 224
Loudoun Now
In the early days of March, Loudoun leaders started gearing up the public response to a new virus that was sweeping the globe from its origins in a city in central China. While warning COVID-19 was a serious public health threat, few then could envision the life-changing impacts the battle would bring.
Most remarkable about those early days is what wasn’t known.
In the first public briefings on the new coronavirus, Loudoun’s Public Health director reported the latest direction from the national and international authorities, including that residents should not make a run on medical masks that would be needed by healthcare workers but would provide little protection to the general public. At the time, authorities believed the virus was primarily spread by contaminated surfaces, not through the air. There was no test available to know who had been infected and no treatment established.