California still way behind in coronavirus testing despite recent advances

[Counselor706]

State health officials have ramped up coronavirus testing in recent days, but California still lags behind most other states, leaving potentially thousands of undiagnosed patients to unknowingly spread the infections.

As of Tuesday, California said it had results for 143,172 tests — or 362 per 100,000 people. That's a sharp increase from two weeks ago when just 39 of every 100,000 residents had been tested.

Yet for all its deep sources of innovation, the state is behind the national average of 596 tests per 100,000, according to the COVID Tracking Project. In New York, which has far more people hospitalized with severe symptoms, testing has reached 1,748 of every 100,000.

The slow testing has been the source of frustration and alarm from public health officials, who say it has limited their understanding of infection patterns and made it harder to slow the coronavirus.

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Nursing home residents in Riverside evacuated after employees don't show up for work

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - More than 80 patients at a skilled nursing facility in Riverside are being evacuated to other healthcare locations after employees of the facility did not show up to care for sick patients two days in a row.

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[RoryN]

When they have to bump their zero-post DOA threads with unrelated stories two days later. #deplorablethreadnecros

 

[coati]

Nursing home residents in Riverside evacuated after employees don't show up for work

Do you mean to tell me that the lowest paid and most poorly equipped health care attendants in America were not willing to risk their lives to maintain a human warehouse system?

I'm shocked.

 

[Counselor706]

California cop dies after being denied a coronavirus test twice

A California police officer died of coronavirus complications after doctors twice shot down her requests to be tested for the bug, according to a report.

Santa Rosa Police Det. Marylou Armer, 43, was only able to secure a test that confirmed her diagnosis after it was “too late,” her family told The Santa Ross Press Democrat.

Her older sister, Mari Lau, said that Armer had gone twice to Kaiser Permanente’s Vallejo Medical Center with a fever, aching body and shortness of breath.

But a doctor reportedly told the cop that she was not considered a candidate for a test because of her age and lack of underlying medical conditions.

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