CDPHE Partners With Local Schools to Offer COVID-19 Tests

Description: Swink parents were notified via text message that FREE COVID-19 testing will be made available through a partnership with CDPHE beginning Thursday September 9, 2021.


Published: 09/08/2021
Byline: Hart

Southeast Colorado School Districts Announce FREE weekly COVID-19 Testing through CDPHE.

 

Parents were notified via text message Wednesday afternoon. 

 

We are expecting more details in an upcoming update from the Otero County Health Department. 

 

Swink School in partnership with CDPHE will begin FREE weekly Covid-19 testing.

Testing will be on Thursday’s from 7 am- 11 am, starting TOMORROW 9/9/21!

Location: Exterior door to the old music room, north parking lot.

Please park in a parking spot and not in the traffic lanes.

 

If you sign your student(s) up:

  • They will be Considered Immune or protected from Covid-19 quarantining for most purposes if tested the week of the exposure and the next two weeks.
  • The State is offering a testing incentive. A participating student will receive $25 for the first COVID-19 test that is administered through this program. Students then receive $10 for every subsequent weekly test administered through this program. CDPHE Detail

 

To participate please fill out the form:

Consent in English

Consent in Spanish (Formulario de Consentimiento)

 

Students 18 years of age and older may fill out the consent.

Parents are welcome to come sign the consent in person.



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