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From the Lexington Herald-Leader: ‘I wanted to know.’ Drive-thru coronavirus tests arrive in rural Kentucky.

Berry Craig
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By BILL ESTEP and WILL WRIGHT

SOMERSET

Moni Deyo has chronic lung disease and so is at higher risk of complications from the novel coronavirus, but there was another reason she wanted to know if she’d been exposed — her 19-month old granddaughter, Paidyn.

So on Tuesday, Deyo, 59, traveled more than an hour from her home in Whitley County to Somerset to one of the four drive-through testing sites Kroger is sponsoring this week across Kentucky.

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