School Staff COVID Testing to Begin in Driggs

The Rendezvous Upper Elementary School in Driggs has been selected as a site for a pilot staff-testing project.  According to Principal Kristin Weston, the project, being conducted in cooperation with Teton Valley Health, starts tomorrow, and involves every Rendezvous staff member who opts in to be tested for coronavirus every week for the next 10 weeks. All testing is free of charge to the staff member. The school was selected because of the size of its staff (33 individuals) and its proximity to the hospital – right across the street. The testing will be an inner-nose nasal swab, will take place in a private location on school grounds, and will be done by Teton Valley Health personnel at a specific time only. Results will be available later that same day.  The pilot project is intended to enable the hospital to eventually roll this kind of testing out to groups at other TSD 401 schools.