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A San Diego company wants to convert shipping containers into COVID testing labs by the thousands. In this Zevely Zone, I visited the TPT Med Tech manufacturing center in Chula Vista for a drive through demonstration.
TPT Med Tech is a global technology company that allowed me to simulate two tests they say will be available to the public days just from now. The company which is headquartered in San Diego is hoping to change the game on COVID-19 testing.
Consumers will download the company's App, then drive to a testing site called a 'Quik Lab'. Consumers will stay in their car while technicians in the mobile laboratories conduct the testing.
The antibody test requires a finger to be pricked with results returned in just minutes. For the COVID test, technicians will perform a mouth swab. Those results come back in about three or four hours.
The company says Quik Labs and their testing have been FDA approved. The tests cost between 75 and 135 dollars each. The results are texted directly to your phone.
"The hard thing with the world right now is to try to find out who has had the disease and who currently has it," said Rick Eberhardt, the company's Executive Vice President. Rick said the idea of converting shipping containers into mobile labs was born just 70 days ago. "We are in the middle of a pandemic there is no right or wrong to do everybody is trying out new ideas this is just a new idea that we stellar idea that we think will help the world," said Rick.
The company has plans to start building 800 Quik Labs a month. "We are getting response from all over the United States from Chicago to Miami to Houston," said Stephen Thomas, who is the CEO of TPT Global Tech .Thomas plans on shipping Quik Labs across the US, Europe and Latin America and reminds us the units are mobile. "So they can be moved from hot spot to hot spot as these things creep up around the United States or internationally for that matter," said Thomas.
As for large sporting events and schools, TPT Med Tech is offering another solution. The company is also selling booths called Sani Quiks for about 25,000 dollars. The booths will be placed at the entrances of businesses, sporting events, concerts and schools. When people enter the booths, they are asked to cleanse their hands with hand sanitizer. A computer then verifies that they are wearing a mask. Once a mask is verified, your temperature is checked. If your temperature checks out without a fever, you will be asked to proceed to a disinfection area where you will be sprayed with a sanitation mist all over your body.
As for the Quik Labs, "Our goal is to make thousands of them," said Rick Eberhardt. When COVID-19 eventually dies down, the company plans on using the labs to test for the flu and ongoing medical needs.
"They are not going to disappear it's not only a COVID-19 testing facility," said Rick. "We are happy to be a benefit to fellow Californians."
All from the comfort of you car.
TPT Med Tech plans to open their 'Quik Labs' to the public just days from now.
