Neighborhood Health in Fort Wayne is now offering rapid antigen testing as of Monday morning.
The news comes as hospitalizations and ICU usage by COVID-19 patients ticked up slightly to begin the week.
The rapid test results can be prepared in ten minutes and can be used for patients who are within five days of the onset of COVID-19 symptoms. Longer -- and more accurate -- PCR tests are also available for use “when appropriate,” according to a release from Neighborhood Health.
A test will be performed “when patients are evaluated at a scheduled appointment with a provider” at Neighborhood Health’s southside location, 3350 Paulding Road.
Eighteen additional COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in northeast Indiana Sunday than had been reported on Saturday, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. That total is now 288.
ICU capacity in northeast Indiana is at 21.6 percent remaining, with 26.5 percent of the units filled with COVID-19 patients.
Northeast Indiana COVID-19 numbers as of Dec. 28:
- Adams County: 15 new cases for 2,560 total. No new deaths for 31 total. 7-day positivity rate at 9.4%.
- Allen County: 130 new cases for 27,255 total. No new deaths for 454 total. 7-day positivity rate at 12.5%.
- DeKalb County: 10 new cases for 2,933 total. No new deaths for 63 total. 7-day positivity rate at 14.0%.
- Huntington County: 11 new cases for 2,378 total. No new deaths for 33 total. 7-day positivity rate at 15.3%.
- Kosciusko County: 16 new cases for 6,675 total. One new death for 68 total. 7-day positivity rate at 17.2%.
- LaGrange County: four new cases for 1,990 total. No new death for 52 total. 7-day positivity rate at 19.7%.
- Noble County: 12 new cases for 3,912 total. No new deaths for 54 total. 7-day positivity rate at 11.5%.
- Steuben County: 14 new cases for 2,545 total. One new death for 21 total. 7-day positivity rate at 22.1%.
- Wabash County: 11 new cases for 2,555 total. No new deaths for 40 total. 7-day positivity rate at 9.2%.
- Wells County: three new cases for 1,863 total. No new deaths for 45 total. 7-day positivity rate at 8.5%.
- Whitley County: 16 new cases for 2,386 total. One new death for 20 total. 7-day positivity rate at 15.7 percent.
Sources include the Indiana State Department of Health and local department of health statistics.
