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We’re a large agency, we cover thirteen counties,
and there’s seventy-two communities just within these thirteen counties,
and we do mobile *** testing, and so our mobile health unit goes out
into a different community every day. So we’re going to start
every health fair we participate in, every person that we test, every person that we touch,
we’re going to ask them if they’re interested in giving us their cell phone [number].
at first I thought it was going to be a Twitter blast, but now I think it’s going to be more of a cell phone blast
but now I think it’s going to be more of a cell phone blast, because one of the things I learned
is that people have to belong to Twitter in order to get the message. But we’re going to set up
a system where we can create a database and send people – if we’re in Lake Charles, Louisiana,
we can say “we’re providing testing over at this intersection, this block,
from two o’clock to five o’clock, and it’s free,
and go by and get a test.” My thought is that people aren’t going to wake up in the morning and say
“today I’m going to go get and get an *** Test But if you get an email, text message over your phone that says
that you’re in their neighborhood and you’re providing testing, people are more likely to get up and do that.
So I’m anxious to really try that, and to use that to notify everyone, every day, where we are
and what we're doing in their community.
Interviewer: Or even share that information with their friends.
Exactly – then they can share that on to other people also. And we’re going to set up a database
so it’s specific. Because if we’re in Lafayette, we’re not going to be notifying people in Lake Charles
Lafayette, at the University of Lafayette doing testing, you know?
I think it’s the very first thing we’re going to do when we get back.