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	Podcast:		WNPR
	Episode:		Will COVID-19 Testing Take A Back Seat As Conn. Vaccinates More Residents?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:06
	Publish Date:		2021-04-16 00:13:30
	Description:		Alexander Amado started working with Community Health Center Inc. nearly a year ago. He took a job at the health center’s Hartford COVID-19 testing sites when they were newly constructed last spring. It was a slow start, he said, but everything quickly escalated. “People would come like four to six people in a car, and people would wait like three hours to get tested. It was pretty insane,” Amado said. “It was a little rough, but we got the rhythm going. And there were two lanes, because that was the volume of cars, and that would wrap around the building.” But on a recent Friday afternoon, those kinds of lines were nowhere to be seen at a drive-thru testing location in the parking lot of the Koeppel Community Sports Center at Trinity College in Hartford. In fact, when city resident Carlos Rodriguez pulled up, there was no wait at all. “So right now I got tested because I work at the restaurant, I’m a little sick, but I know it’s a common cold,” he said through his car window, “but to
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