Cleveland Clinic Credit: W.O. Walker Building in University Circle
Drive-through COVID-19 testing, coordinated by the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital systems, will begin Saturday at 11 a.m. in the garage of the W.O. Walker Building in University Circle.

The hospitals announced Friday night that Cleveland Clinic patients with a doctor’s note will start being screened Saturday. UH patients with doctors’ notes will be added Monday. Thereafter, screenings will take place seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

In a press release, the Cleveland Clinic said that patients without a doctor’s order will not be offered testing at this location, but that people experiencing symptoms should start with a “virtual visit” that the Clinic provides online or call their primary care physician.

This advice corresponds with what MetroHealth CEO Dr. Akram Boutros and Cuyahoga County Board of Health Commissioner Terry Allan have said in recent days: The first step, if you’re experiencing fever, body aches or other symptoms associated with COVID-19, is to call ahead.

In drive-through testing, patients stay in their vehicles as sample are collected. The press release said that all samples would be sent to UH and Cleveland Clinic laboratories where in-house testing for COVID-19 began last week and where results can be generated within a day. As was previously announced, no copays will be charged for the test.

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This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2020.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

7 replies on “Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing Begins Saturday in Cleveland”

  1. While levity may help alleviate stress at times it is unnecessary such as this above comment.

    Thank you for updating your readers and not limiting your content to whatever the above reader supposes it should be.

  2. I’m not saying limit content I’m just warning other readers that this writer and publication are habitually lying to their readers or crafting narrative so one should we cautious of their motivations while reporting on this especially.

  3. Then your commentary is inane, unhelpful, and destructive.

    This isn’t the time for propagating unfounded conspiracies, baseless allegations, or partisan chicanery.

  5. TP Scene

    That story reads like straight reporting of facts and quotes to me. Can you point out the narrative or advice advanced by the writer? I may not agree with the editorial tone of most Scene pieces, but don’t see a problem here.

  6. Then why’d they have to delete the comment? Tou guys are being set up, the media including scene here is complicit if not directly involved. Go get your mouth swabbed and gove them your DNA though. Listen to the scene writers even though they literally want you dead.

  7. So just like that in world record speed they have created a vaccine that you will be forced to take.

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