{"id":16173,"date":"2020-03-31T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2020-03-31T02:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:46:40","slug":"ocean-county-tested-166-people-for-covid-19-at-occ-facility-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/03\/ocean-county-tested-166-people-for-covid-19-at-occ-facility-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean County Tested 166 People for COVID-19 at Drive-Thru Facility Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16174\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16174\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A drive-through testing facility at Ocean County College, March 30, 2020. (Photo: Ocean County)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-681x511.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drive-through testing facility at Ocean County College, March 30, 2020. (Photo: Ocean County)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County health officials said 166 people were tested for potential coronavirus infection at the county\u2019s testing site located at Ocean County College. The site opened Monday and closed at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings are moving along smoothly,\u201d said Ocean County Public Health Coordinator Daniel Regenye. \u201cWe anticipate the same will happen as we move through the rest of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In all, 126 residents were tested for the virus. Another 40 first responders were tested for the virus, bringing the total to 166. Appointments are required to be tested, as well as a prescription.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur appointments are booked for Tuesday,\u201d Regenye said. \u201cBut there are openings yet for Wednesday through Friday of this week. Because of the limited number of tests we have it remains imperative that people follow the requirements to be tested at the college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be an Ocean County resident and have identification.<\/li>\n<li>You must have a physician\u2019s prescription.<\/li>\n<li>You must make an online appointment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ochd.org\">ochd.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You must be symptomatic.<\/li>\n<li>You should enter the Ocean County College campus from the Hooper Avenue entrance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regenye said that any practitioner (including Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice Nurse, Medical Doctor, Physician Assistant etc.) who has \u201cprescriptive\u201d privileges in New Jersey can write a script for COVID testing, it does not necessarily have to be a physician.<\/p>\n<p>Regenye suggested using telemedicine to obtain a prescription in order to avoid exposing healthcare workers to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The telemedicine services provided by local hospitals can be accessed at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hackensack Meridian Health (Ocean Medical Center, Southern Ocean Medical Center) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org\/covid19\/\">https:\/\/www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org\/covid19\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RWJ Barnabas Healthcare System (Community Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus\/Kimball) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RWJBHtelemed.org\">RWJBHtelemed.org<\/a> use code RWJBH15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIf you haven\u2019t registered and if you don\u2019t have a doctor\u2019s prescription we cannot provide you with a test. I cannot stress this enough,\u201d Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said.<\/p>\n<p>The site will operate daily from 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. as long as coronavirus tests continue to be available and also weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents remain in their cars and medical personnel perform a nasal swab,\u201d said Ocean County Freeholder Gerry P. Little, who is liaison to the Ocean County Health Department. \u201cWe are working to make this convenient and more importantly safe for the public, the health care providers on site and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the test has been performed, it\u2019s anticipated to take about three to five days for results to be returned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/03\/ocean-county-tested-166-people-for-covid-19-at-occ-facility-monday\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County health officials said 166 people were tested for potential coronavirus infection at the county\u2019s testing site located at Ocean County College. The site opened Monday and closed at 3 p.m. \u201cThings are moving along smoothly,\u201d said Ocean County Public Health Coordinator Daniel Regenye. \u201cWe anticipate the same will happen as we move through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,3978,3991,705,505],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-drive-through-testing","tag-occ","tag-ocean-county-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}