Swedish brings mobile COVID-19 testing to the homeless and formerly homeless

March 25, 2020

On Tuesday, March 24, Swedish Medical Center set up a mobile COVID-19 testing center outside a Plymouth Housing building in downtown Seattle – the first outing of its kind to detect the novel coronavirus in some of the city's most vulnerable people. 

"This is a population that wouldn’t necessarily be able to come to us, so we tried to think creatively on how we could bring our services to them," said Kristen Morrow, director of operations for the Swedish Neuroscience Institute.

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