The Shawnee Sports Complex in Dunbar was a frequent site for drive-up COVID-19 testing in Kanawha County in 2020. The county health department and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority ran the events. The large parking area let cars line up for testing.
Testing events at the complex
- Friday, July 10, 2020, 2 to 7 p.m.: 628 people got a test. At that time the health department had held 26 drive-up testing events in the county.
- Friday, August 21, 2020, 1 to 8 p.m.: see Drive-up COVID-19 at Shawnee Sports Complex.
- November 2020: the complex was the Monday stop of Operation Drumstick, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with COVID-19 tests and flu shots before Thanksgiving.
For appointments in 2020, people called the health department COVID-19 hotline at 304-348-1088. See also 568 tested at Schoenbaum Center and all event locations.
This information is from 2020. It is kept here as a record and is not current advice.
Sources
- WCHS-TV: More than 500 tested for COVID-19 Wednesday at Schoenbaum Center; testing events added (July 2, 2020)
- WCHS-TV: More than 600 tested at Kanawha drive-thru site Friday (July 11, 2020)
- WCHS Radio: report on the Thanksgiving-week testing and flu shot events (November 2020; the article is no longer online)