Physicians Quality Care received another 34 COVID-19 test results Tuesday and, for the second day in a row, no results were positive for the coronavirus. Since March 18, PQC has tested 1,258 patients for the virus in its secure COVID-19 Clinic on Pleasant Plains Extended in Jackson. Of 1,194 results returned, the number of positive test results remained at 54.

Meanwhile, PQC continues to test people for COVID-19 IgG antibodies in its urgent care clinics in Jackson and Milan. People who are not exhibiting symptoms for COVID-19 can walk in to Urgent Care for a quick appointment with a provider and to get their blood drawn by a lab tech for the antibody test.

Physicians Quality Care, in partnership with LabCorp, a nationally accredited testing laboratory, is offering specific tests for COVID-19 (Sars-CoV-2). IgG antibodies are the body’s immune system response to fighting off the presence of a virus. PQC has done nearly 500 tests for antibodies since it started offering them last week.

“PQC’s quick move in March to safely test people who are concerned they have the virus and our recent response to offer specific COVID-19 antibody tests as the economy begins to open back up gives us a large role in determining the scope of the virus in our community,” said Dr. Jimmy Hoppers, CEO of Physicians Quality Care, “We don’t know all of the answers about COVID-19 and what it means to have antibodies, but we do know that the presence of antibodies to other diseases caused by a virus – measles, mumps, flu, chicken pox – confers a much lower risk of getting the disease or spreading it to others.”

The FDA has said that, “Experience with other viruses suggests that individuals whose blood contains antibodies associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection – provided they are recovered and not currently infected with the virus – may be able to resume work and other daily activities in society.”

For more information call 731-984-8400 or visit physiciansqualitycare.com. PQC in Jackson is open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. Telemedicine is available during those hours.

Because all COVID-19-concerned patients are directed to the Jackson location’s secure COVID-19 clinic, PQC in Milan has new hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.