FILE - In this Saturday, May 2, 2020 file photo community volunteer checks for appointments and directs cars lining up for coronavirus tests in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. The city of The offer reflects a parting with state guidelines after the mayor partnered with a startup testing company. The test the city is offering is easier to administer and doesn't require the scarce supplies that have created bottlenecks for expanded testing across California.
“Wasted tests at a time when we still have insufficient testing is really unfortunate,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a San Diego-based medical research partnership. “I applaud what they’re doing. The more people tested the better.” When Garcetti opened up testing April 30, the county at large had relaxed some guidelines on who could get a test, with priorities going to the sickest and most vulnerable. It allowed testing some people without symptoms, including health care workers and emergency personnel most at risk of exposure.
LA has paid $137 per test to Curative-Korva, a start-up run by Fred Turner, a 25-year-old British wunderkind. The firm was making sepsis tests when a worker there thought he was infected with coronavirus, couldn’t get a test and devised one to collect a specimen by swabbing the inside of the mouth after coughing, spokesman Kyle Arteaga said.
“It’s like they’re covering all their bases. If the virus is present somewhere, they are improving their chances of capturing where that is and detecting it,” Wyllie said. “It’s hard to mess up spitting into a tube really, or swiping the inside of your mouth.”
Just wait, they'll need it in the fall.
If only they hadn't banned the public access to good quality filtration mask or told them that if they were sick to stay home or if they get complications to go to the ER and get put in a ventilator, too late then for meds to help.
Open up LA. Now it’s about control
Just for the fun of it.
Texas is too...
Why should I have one if I don’t have symptoms? I could have symptoms tomorrow..
Get all those false positives in
Why can’t Texas do this for their people? Our numbers are going up.
Makes sense. People there are used to putting things up their nose. LosAngeles garcetti pandemic Covid_19
are these the ones that give false negatives results?
Trying to get those numbers up!!
❤️😷Los Angeles .. City of ANGELS ..👼👼🏻👼🏽 .. Thank you 4 TESTING‼️..
LATimesfarmer AdamSerrano GalaxyPodcast LAG_Rumors with plenty of tests in LA why can’t LA sports teams resume training & games? MLB says they’ll test & screen everyone a few times a week
This will stop thousands of phone calls. Plus it will help identify safe zones where the virus is not active.
Same in my county in Florida
Maby its due to have to registering guidelines and the need for government issued IDs. Just think if the Dems had the time to write those same issues into their hero's Bill. Maybe they could of wrote the same to remove the 'rasict' restrictions that may be
This sounds like people making overtime for a waste of time.
That sounds like a waste of resources.
Free you say? You keep using that word...
And what good is it to get a test today? It doesn’t mean your immune you can still get it the next and beyond.
The UNITED STATES lm playing on my phone, I'm Bord .
How accurate are self test? Can people go deep enough? I’m an ER nurse and I don’t think so. I couldn’t test my own self
This should be EVERYWHERE
Honest question: does it really matter if you test if the Mayor is keeping the city on lockdown indefinitely?
Nobody is sick.
Thank you, Los Angeles!! Any chance we can get this in NC?
Test yourself every hour. Doesn’t help with anything!
Seems like a sweet waste of money.... good job LA!! 👍🏼👍🏼
If only we could have had a testing capacity like this early on. Too bad someone botched that for us 🤷♂️
Not sure what a test is going to do if you don’t have symptoms? Sounds like a waste of money. Why not do free antibody testing instead.
No thank you. I’m sure they’re tainted. PASS !!!!!! ... they wanna keep their numbers high to keep quarentine going. Not helping you with your scheme ... next!
WHAT? Not enough sick people-YET the mayor wants to keep the city are lock-down until Aug. BIG GOVT does not want to give up power
Presidential.
But I thought the bias media says there is not enough tests
Good!; We needed this
And a dime bag!!!
FYI: 'irregardless' not 'regardless'.
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