A closer look a the Graham Park testing site

Nearly nine million dollars from the CARES Act will go towards the COVID-19 response, including testing at Graham Park.

Comes wednesday new on daybreak new for you on daybreak, we're getting an inside look at rochester's covid?

"*19 testing site after the northwest location closed and combined with the graham park location.

The expansion allowed for more testing, and an increase in staff.

Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins got a behind the scenes look of how the testing process works.

She joins us live now.

Madelyne... how are things going over there?/// brooke and tyler.

I'm going to give you a full disclosure here ?

"* everyone that you're about to see in this video are all volunteers who either work at mayo clinic, olmsted medical center or with public health.

They wanted to take the time to walk everyone through the testing process to show us how it's done.

Here's how it went.

"i was still a little nervous coming, just not knowing what to expect.

But they just did a really great job of kind of explaining everything and making sure that i can understand it and answering any questions that i had."

Jennifer miller got tested at the drive thru site and she tells me it wasn't as bad as what she was expecting.

So there are three stations you drive through.

At station one... you'll get info about the test and staff will ask you if you have the ability to self isolate.

Station two makes sure you're the correct patient getting the test.

Then you move on to station three where you get the swab.

Chief operations of covid response, daniel jensen, tells me a lot of brainpower and work has gone into making this process as easy and smooth for the patients as possible.

He says in just one day... over 800 people were tested.

Jensen explains the testing site at graham park is possible because of the countless amount of people behind it ?

"*- all the way from building engineers to "we think that's why this is a really powerful collaborative.

The partnerships that have formed here.

All the ways that people have been able to work together, build relationships and just try new ideas and experiment.

If it doesn't work, we're quickly onto the next thing to just try and create that best experience as we can."

So what's next?

Jensen tells me right now... they're in back to school mode just like a lot of other people.

He expects a lot more children will be coming to get tested... so they're figuring out the best ways to handle that.

Live in rochester.

Madelyne watkins kimt news 3.

Thank you madelyne.

On tuesday... the olmsted county board of commissioners approved a plan for investing 19 point 1 million dollars in funds as part of the "cares act."

And 8 point 9 million of that will be going towards covid?

"* 19 response... including