Fever and flu clinic seeing less patients

Huntsville Hospital is seeing a 70 percent decrease in patients seeking coronavirus tests at its fever and flu clinic

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New at 10 -- huntsville hospital is seeing a 70 percent decrease in patients seeking coronavirus tests at its fever and flu clinic... with less demand for the clinic located along governors drive, the hospital will scale back on the number of employees at the site.

Waay31's steven dilsizian joins us live with the latest on the future of the test site.

Tracy doughty - huntsville hospital "it's slowed down over the last couple of weeks, we started out very busy, about 250 patients or so a day, and now we are seeing between 50 and 75 a day."

Tracy doughty is the senior vice president of huntsville hospital's operations.

He says 8000 patients have received coronvirus tests across the entire hospital system.

But the number of patients needing the service has fallen.

Take sot: tracy doughty - huntsville hospital "we were open very early when the pandemic started, so we were able to see a ton of patients in the beginning, we also had a drive thru at john hunt park and of course our er was open, so we think we got a bulk of the patients" the fever and flu clinic has served more than 2000 patients.... with less than 100 testing positive for coronavirus.

Take sot: tracy doughty - huntsville hospital "i think it's had a huge impact on our community and allow our people to get back to their normal lives.

We've seen about 2100 patients, there, 2100 patients, and about 75 or 80 positive patients, so we were able to get those patients quarantined fast and get them away from other folks" hospital workers aren't seeing that same rush of patients... doughty says the decrease in demand will ultimately force the hospital to reduce the number of staff at the sites.

Take sot: tracy doughty - huntsville hospital "as the demand decreases, we will decrease the staff load here as well, and we'll let them go back to their regular jobs" the fever and flu clinic is open monday through friday, from 9 am to 5 pm.

There is no clear timeline of when it will officially be removed.

Live in hsv -- sd -- waay31 news.