Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday evening that Los Angeles has become the first 'major city in America' to expand COVID19 testing capacity to cover all residents
Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday evening that Los Angeles has become the first "major city in America" to expand COVID-19 testing capacity to cover all residents.
The expansion — done in partnership with the County of Los Angeles and Sean Penn's disaster relief nonprofit Community Organized Relief Effort — will see free testing offered to all 10 million L.A. County residents, "whether or not you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms." Prior to the news, testing had been limited to only those experiencing symptoms and those living in or working in institutional settings where outbreaks have been common.
Testing has become a focal point of efforts to relax safe-at-home restrictions while allowing businesses and the economy to reopen because it will provide health experts necessary data to monitor and curb potential outbreaks. It is seen as one of the primary tools officials and politicians will use in tandem with tracing and hospital capacity to determine restrictions moving forward in the crisis.
Per the latest figures from L.A. County, so far in the pandemic, 139,000 residents have been tested at 35 sites with 22,485 testing positive for a 14 percent positive rate. So far, there have been 1,056 deaths, accounting for far more than half of the state's death count of 1,809. Announcing that L.A. is now the first major city in America to offer free COVID-19 testing to all residents.
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