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Has anyone gone for testing recently? How long did you have to wait for the drive-up site at 17th St E?  
 
Also, it's unclear from the government website if the Keystone site is a drive-thru or walk-in. Does anyone know?

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is walk in and when I was there a couple weeks back it was a 10 minute wait. I got my results back quicker than a couple friends on the same day that went to the drive through.

Keystone requires an appointment. They actually turned me away because I didn’t have an appointment even though they had no one at the site. So I drove to Van Horne site. Tested at Van Horne twice. In and out in 15-20 mins. Though there was no line up when I went.

A drive thru on 17th st east? You don’t need to get out of your vehicle?

Went Sunday to Keystone center (with appointment) it's walk up. Got the results Monday early evening.

Thanks for all the replies!! We're all going to get tested tomorrow, but with our disabled daughter I wasn't sure which was the better option. I think we'll stick with plan A for the drive-thru so I don't have to bring her into the Keystone (which would completely confuse her).

Yes it’s a drive through. They pull about 3/4 cars in at a time through one door and then test them all and then pull them out another door. No one gets out of there car.

Just an update in case anyone needs to get tested in the next few days - we went to the ACC site in the end and they were FABULOUS working with us and our bunch of kids (we were 2 adults & 5 kids). Basically zero wait time to get in, and while we held up the line a bit (just due to our sheer numbers) they were very prompt and efficient. The people ahead of us were in & out in about 10-15 min, we took about 45 to all get processed but they kept the line moving up the best they could so it wasn't too bad for the people behind us.  
 
(Moral of the story - maybe come back in a bit if you see a 12-passanger van ahead of you in line)

To be more testing going on now because of colds starting to go around. Patience is the key.

appointment for Keystone is online and when I made my appointment I was at home and was actually 15 minutes late because I had to drive there. So if you drive there, you can make your appointment right in the parking lot and basically walk in.

Just curious. That's a lot of people to test. Kids must have been nervous.

We had all been sick with a virus of some kind in the days leading up to testing. With so many people, we hit a lot of different symptoms (that's normal - we usually see a wide variety of symptoms anytime any illness comes into the house), including quite a few of them on the Covid checklist. We wanted to make sure it *wasn't* Covid before unleashing them back into the school system and potentially wiping out multiple cohorts at multiple schools lol.  
 
We were all negative.  
 
And the kids did great. The nurse who swabbed us and gave the kids a pep talk was fabulous. It clearly wasn't her first rodeo.  
 
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Edited by Abbysmum, 2020-12-05 19:41:53

My son and I had to get tested and both the screener and the nurses were so amazing. I def don’t think they get enough credit. They made us feel like there wasn’t a huge lineup out the door. And the nurse made my Son feel so safe and brave. They truly are angels on earth.