Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson recently expressed his dissatisfaction with Test Iowa after the state reversed its decision to close a Waterloo testing site. | Pixabay
Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson recently expressed his dissatisfaction with Test Iowa after the state reversed its decision to close a Waterloo testing site. | Pixabay
Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson recently expressed his dissatisfaction with Test Iowa after the state reversed its decision to close a Waterloo testing site.
KCRG reports Gov. Kim Reynold’s Office was originally going to close the Waterloo site on May 22 but then choose to keep it open for an additional week. The $26 million Test Iowa program is intended to expand COVID-19 testing in the state with the help of Utah-based private companies.
“This has been such a fiasco with the governor's office,” Thompson told Iowa’s News Now. ”Residents not getting their test result in a timely manner, little to no state communication, lost and erroneous results, it seems like a $26 million publicity stunt for the governor that we won't be a party to any longer.”
Despite Thompson’s criticism of Test Iowa, WFC Courier reports a second testing location has opened in Waterloo at the People Community Health Clinic.
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