Graham company produces medical COVID-19 testing pods

With COVID-19 threat to continuing spread throughout the world, country, state and locally one Graham company is in the beginning stages of producing and selling medical pods and testing pods.

XCaliber Container, headquartered in Graham, has started to produce three different kinds of containers that can be used to help medical professionals combat COVID-19. The company is transforming an 8’ x 20’ steel container into a Self-Contained Medical Examination Pod (basic and advanced) and Mobile Drive Through Testing Pods, that will be for sale in the United States and Canada. Each unit has access to power, along with generator plugs that require a small generator to run if needed.

Magan Anderson, Director of Marketing for XCaliber, said that this idea for these pods really came from hearing from the government and then looking at what was done in other countries.

“President Trump and the governor have all said that we need these mobile testing facilities, we need these exam pods separate from hospitals and urgent care facilities to help protect our healthcare providers and first responders. I mean first and foremost, if we don’t have them to care for those that are ill from the (novel) coronavirus or other illnesses, we are like Italy at that point. And they did not separate their emergency room from their coronavirus patients,” Anderson said. “That’s the big reason for this, really just protecting those first responders and healthcare providers, and giving the citizens a little bit of peace of mind when they go in. ‘I’m sick I need to go in, but I’m scared to sit next to someone who could potentially test positive for corona’.”

For the full story, see the Saturday, March 21 edition of The Graham Leader.