Georgia’s governor said Wednesday that he’s considering creating mobile testing strike teams to deploy to schools and colleges to control COVID-19 outbreaks.
Brian Kemp told news outlets the teams could also be used to control coronavirus outbreaks at long-term care facilities. The Republican governor has expressed frustration in recent days that fewer people are being tested in Georgia than at the peak of the summer outbreak in late July, meaning the state has unused testing capacity.
“If we have those mobile teams, instead of having people at a fixed site somewhere that nobody’s going to visit to get tested, let’s take those resources and take them somewhere we need them for testing,” Kemp told WTOC-TV.
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