The One Clean Island committee in the Key West started on Friday testing small groups of city police officers at Two Friends Patio Restaurant.
The local police union representative, Officer Frank Betz, had contacted One Clean Island co-founder and Two Friends owner Danny Hughes about testing possibilities.
Dr. Bruce Boros of Advanced Urgent Care spent Friday morning at the restaurant conducting rapid-result antibody tests that can be read in minutes following a painless finger-stick (much like those used by diabetics to check blood sugar.)
City Commissioner Clayton Lopez, who worked for 20 years in the health department conducting HIV testing and then teaching people to test others, was fully supportive of the testing efforts Friday morning.
“I think this is great,” Lopez told The Weekly. “I’m a big proponent of increased testing. The reality is, until we can get more people tested, we’re flying blind. In dealing with the community, I absolutely think there should be a partnership as far as broad community testing goes.”
