Mayor Bill Rawls Announces Free Covid-19 Drive-Thru Testing And Mask Giveaway To Urge Brownsville-Haywood County To Mitigate The Spread Of Covid-19

BROWNSVILLE, TN – Mayor William D. Rawls, Jr. and the City of Brownsville is hosting a free COVID-19 drive-thru testing and mask giveaway on Friday, September 18, 2020, at 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM, and Saturday, September, 19, 2020, at 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, in the WOW Building parking lot. This event is open to all Haywood County residents and is a partnership with the Tennessee Department of Health, Haywood County Health Department, and Stanton Health Clinic. The goal is to make COVID-19 testing available to Haywood Countians who are concerned about their health and the health of their family members and the entire community. It is also a plea to local citizens to level up the seriousness of this rural health crisis.

The Haywood County Health Department will sponsor the first day of free drive-thru testing, and the Stanton Health Clinic will sponsor Saturday’s testing. The free masks are provided by Shelby County and Mayor Lee Harris who gifted over 500 masks to Brownsville-Haywood County during a COVID-19 Task Force presentation at Brownsville City Hall in mid-August.

This drive-thru event is open to everyone in Brownsville-Haywood County who wishes to receive a COVID-19 test.

Brownsville is the largest city in Haywood County and was recently number one in the State of Tennessee for new daily coronavirus cases. Mayor Rawls calls this a rural health crisis because of the 2014 hospital closure which makes this COVID-19 global pandemic even more problematic for this rural community.