“Data is our eyes and ears in this pandemic. Without having it, we are operating blindly,” one public health expert said.
In northern California, a mobile testing site was closed in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood but may soon be redeployed to another part of the city. “While testing was scheduled to end Monday, June 1, additional testing was under consideration for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week,” Veronica Vien, a city spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News in an email.
“In order to reopen the state-managed Community Based Testing Sites, steps have to be taken to add security at each facility to replace personnel that was reassigned due to ongoing civil unrest throughout the state,” the spokesperson said in an email.
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