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Coping with COVID: KU sets up coronavirus testing units on campus

The university has deployed four of Black & Veatch’s Rapid Modular Health System testing units around campus, the units used for coronavirus screening and other diagnostic purposes for students and staff.

New technology primarily used to detect the presence of COVID-19 has been introduced to the University of Kansas campus this month.

The university has now set up four Rapid Modular Health System mobile testing units created by Black & Veatch, the units deployed around campus to help provide free testing to students and staff.

For the fall semester, KU has made it a mandatory requirement for all students and staff staying or visiting its campus to be tested.

According to KU, samples collected by these mobile units will be tested and results returned within 24 to 28 hours of being sent to a lab.

Referred to by some as RaMHS units, the testing devices are said to be scalable, intermodal containers transformed into testing sites capable of screening as well as serving other diagnostic purposes, according to a Thursday news release from the Business Wire.

Part of the university’s broader “Protect KU” campaign, the presence of the testing units aims to detect any person who tests positive and to ensure that they remain off campus until they have been cleared to return.