Karla Chaucer was on a family trip in South Carolina back in January.
During the trip, Chaucer started to feel very sick. Over the next three and a half weeks, a number of other family members had flu-like symptoms and some tested positive for pneumonia.
Chaucer wasn’t feeling any flu-like symptoms Saturday afternoon, but to make sure she and her husband Steve didn’t have COVID-19, she was one of hundreds of people who lined up to get tested for the novel coronavirus at the Hamilton County emissions testing center on Riverfront Parkway.
Karla Chaucer was one of more than 60 people who took advantage of the site’s walk-up test. Hundreds more used the drive-thru testing site from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
She said once confirmed cases in Hamilton County and the rest of Tennessee started to increase, she didn’t feel comfortable going out and requesting a test without symptoms. Saturday’s testing site proved to be a convenient alternative.