Since early April it has offered tests to any tribal member who wants one - tribal employees, parents, young, old, sick, asymptomatic or already tested - at its Arapaho location as well as a satellite clinic in Ethete. The clinic, which like most facilities in Wyoming was initially hampered by testing supply shortages, has overcome those restraints by using saline solution as a transport medium, a method backed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tents and a trailer have popped up outside, and the bulk of clinic activity now takes place in the parking lot, where physicians and staff in protective suits, masks, visors and gloves greet patients in their cars, assess their health or test them for COVID-19.Īnd test they do. The Wind River Family and Community Health Center in Arapaho no longer resembles the bustling family clinic it operated as once upon a time before COVID-19. UPDATE: Confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the Wind River Indian Reservation had climbed to 22 as of Saturday, according to the Fremont County Incident Management Team. Our work is made possible by dedicated members like you who invest in our reporting - thank you! We appreciate you being a member of the WyoFile community.
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