Health centers are actively engaged in COVID-19 testing and vaccinations

Health centers were essential health care responders in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. They provided care to approximately 745,000 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, including more than 70,400 patients who also were diagnosed with an acute respiratory illness caused by COVID-19 such as pneumonia or bronchitis.[19] During 2020, community health centers tested more than 3.7 million patients for the novel coronavirus infection and approximately 279,000 for antibodies to the virus (Figure 8). At the end of 2020, in the first few weeks that COVID-19 vaccines were administered, health centers reported that they vaccinated 72,704 health center patients.

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