KUAR | By Remington Miller, Alexandria Brown
As Arkansas’ COVID-19 cases continue to decline, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is scaling back vaccinations and testing.
On Friday, UAMS will close a drive-thru testing site on the Little Rock campus at Shuffield Drive and Jack Stephens Drive at 4 p.m. It opened just over two years ago on March 13, 2020. Tests will still be offered starting Monday, March 28 by appointment only at the nearby Monroe Building at 401 S. Monroe Street.
Last Friday, it halted the operation of a vaccine clinic that had most recently been located in the Monroe Building. Vaccinations will still be available there, but only by appointment. Since the first vaccination clinic opened on Jan. 19, 2021 in the Freeway Medical Center, UAMS says it has administered more than 118,000 doses.
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Doctors and nurses testing people for COVID-19 at UAMS' drive-thru triage location on July 23, 2020. The drive-thru testing site is to be closed on Friday.