Harper and Santiago know each other, but Santiago doesn’t represent Daytona Beach’s Black community in the Florida House.
Still, Harper made Santiago aware of the lack of readily available walk-up testing in Daytona Beach’s Black community.
Santiago started making calls to local NAACP leadership and elected officials, including one to Daytona Beach City Commissioner Quanita May to get insight into her zone, which is in the predominantly Black 32114 zip code.
Free coronavirus testing is now available at the Midtown Cultural & Education Center, located in the heart of Daytona Beach’s Black community.
Santiago is already thinking about bring in a second walkup test to Daytona Beach’s Black community that will determine whether a person may have gotten sick then recovered from COVID-19 and not know it.
