  {"id":126077,"date":"2020-08-28T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=126077"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:03:01","slug":"covid-19-testing-manoa-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/28\/covid-19-testing-manoa-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Free COVID-19 testing on M\u0101noa campus Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_84400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84400\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall.jpg\" alt=\"tree lined walkway at U H Manoa\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s McCarthy Mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Free COVID-19 walk-in testing will be available Sunday, August 30, on the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa campus on McCarthy Mall, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> employees and students, especially those who live on campus, are encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity and <a href=\"https:\/\/doineedacovid19test.com\/\">pre-register for specific appointment times<\/a>. The test will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/community\/COVID-19-testing-deep-nasal-self-swab.pdf\">a self-administered nasal swab<\/a> supervised by trained medical volunteers. The results will be emailed in three to five business days.<\/p>\n<p>The testing is ONLY for people who are NOT symptomatic and have NOT been possibly exposed to the virus. Please do not attend if you are experiencing symptoms and\/or have come into &ldquo;close contact&rdquo; with someone who tested positive. Isolate yourself as soon as possible and contact your healthcare provider. <\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> employees with valid parking permits are allowed to park on upper campus. The line will begin on the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Hall end of the McCarthy Mall. The testing is available to the public so please plan accordingly for possible traffic delays and wait times. Please observe all physical distancing and face covering mandates. For students in the Modified Quarantine program, participating in the testing on Sunday will be allowed as an official university activity.<\/p>\n<p>The free testing at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is part of the &ldquo;surge testing&rdquo; by the City and County of Honolulu, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (<abbr>DHHS<\/abbr>) and the Office of the Surgeon General. The results will be kept confidential and only shared with <abbr>DHHS<\/abbr> and the individual voluntarily taking the test.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of testing sites, to learn more about COVID-19 testing, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/doineedacovid19test.com\/\">Do I Need a COVID-19 Test?<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk-in testing will be available on McCarthy Mall, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1416,9],"class_list":["post-126077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126095,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126077\/revisions\/126095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}