The Health Care District of Palm Beach County received over 76,000 calls in the first hour Thursday morning, representing over 1,100 unique callers.
During that time, representatives scheduled nearly 850 appointments for COVID-19 drive-thru testing for Saturday at the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach.
The call center is not taking more calls for the day.
The hotline, at 561-642-1000, will reopen Friday at 8 a.m. and will stay open for as long as it takes to schedule approximately 500 appointments for Monday. At that point, the remainder of the test kits will be scheduled.
The drive-thru test site will expand and use all four lanes on Saturday.
The testing site will be closed Sunday.
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