COVID Testing In Paulding County: Where To Find Locations

Kara McIntyre
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PAULDING COUNTY, GA — As public health officials across Paulding County and Georgia warn of rising COVID-19 cases due to the omicron and delta variants of the coronavirus, more Georgians are looking for COVID-19 tests but having trouble finding them.

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, there have been 1,066 new COVID-19 cases in Paulding County in the two weeks prior to Dec. 24, with a case rate of 618 cases per 100,000 county residents.

Surveillance for coronavirus variants is done through genomic sequencing of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) positive test results. In Georgia, the most-recent genomic sequencing is from the week ending Dec. 4, according to the GDPH.

At that time, the delta variant was responsible for 98 percent of new COVID-19 cases, state public health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses genomic sequencing data to project current variant proportions — and the agency now estimates the omicron variant accounts for more than 73 percent of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

"Given the rapid transmissibility of the omicron variant, the current proportion of omicron in Georgia is likely similar to that of the national estimate, and presumably will account for all new COVID cases in the state in the coming weeks," GDPH officials said in a Dec. 21 news release.

The Northwest Health District of the Georgia Department of Public Health offers free, drive-up COVID-19 testing at the following locations and hours, but all sites will be closed this Friday and Saturday in observance of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day:

Paulding County

  • Wellstar Paulding Hospital Urgent Care Center, 120 Greystone Power Blvd., Dallas

    • Monday through Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Bartow County

  • LakePointe Sports Complex, 261 Stars Way, Emerson

    • Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Catoosa County

  • The Colonnade, 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold

    • Mondays and Wednesdays: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Floyd County

  • Coosa Valley Fairgrounds, 1400 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Rome

    • Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Other Paulding County locations offering on-site COVID-19 testing are:

To find a testing site elsewhere in Georgia, visit dph.georgia.gov/castlight-location-finder.

This article originally appeared on the Dallas-Hiram Patch