How can we develop a testing solution that is quick and cost effective to implement, and bring it directly to underserved, high-risk communities?
In April 2020 it became clear that greatly increased testing was needed to evaluate and control the spread of the Coronavirus. This reality brought to the surface strong racial and income healthcare disparities.
At the onset of the project our team identified five key parameters to define the success of the testing process: mobility, accessibility, speed, flexibility, ease of implementation, and scalability. Under this framework, we explored the refitting of vehicles that could be quickly converted into mobile testing centers.
Our idea
To address the ease of implementation, connection to the communities and universality of the response, our starting point was the re-purposing of underutilized school buses.
