So the current situation with Quest and LabCorp, which of the two big commercial labs and most doctors offices use CVS uses? You may have read that or heard that CBS is coming in. I’m starting to write eight right. It is coming in to do four sites in the Sacramento area where they actually require you personally to swab your nose and to send it off. Um, to the labs and the labs are the same ones that have 89 day waiting periods right now, some of the lab some of the big labs are up to 10 to 12 days waiting period, which makes it virtually irrelevant to test because, as we know now is, everybody knows there’s a 14 day window of quarantining. And so, if you get tested on Day two of your infection, let’s say and don’t get the results for 12 days, you have effectively quarantined yourself out of you. Have you spent your time out of quarantine in quarantine? In other words, you’re you’re released from quarantine before you even get the results, so they’re basically a relevant to that end, we have worked with small labs that have, ah, decent capacity in the Sacramento region, and we’re hopeful to announce the next day or two a deal with one of them that will allow us to have turnarounds of no more than three days, maybe two days at our community based sites.
Sacramento County to reopen 5 COVID-19 sites amid testing backlog
County health director talks about coronavirus testing backlog
Sacramento County Director of Health Services Dr. Peter Beilenson spoke Wednesday about how a lack of COVID-19 testing contributed to the recommendation that students should continue with distance learning in the fall. “There’s a huge dearth of testing, a huge lack of testing in the United States because of supply chain issues, and it was going to really impact our ability to test students, contacts of students and teachers in an appropriate matter,” Beilenson said. To help with the testing backlog, Bielenson said that Rite Aid will soon be bringing in four new COVID-19 testing sites in the Sacramento area. At those sites, people will swab their own nose and send in the sample to a lab.”The labs are the same ones that have eight- to nine-day waiting periods right now,” he said. “Some of the labs, some of the big labs, are up to 10 to 12 days waiting period, which makes it virtually irrelevant to test, because as we know now, as everybody knows, it’s a 14-day window of quarantining.”Sacramento County announced later Wednesday it is teaming up with StemExpress to reopen five community-based COVID-19 testing sites.The sites closed, then reopened with fewer hours due to the nationwide testing supply shortage, officials said earlier this month.“The relaunch of the partnership provides a much-needed service to expand testing that is critical to offer accessible testing led by and within the diverse neighborhoods of Sacramento County,” Sacramento County spokesperson Jana Haynes said in a news release.The testing sites will launch July 20. For the first week, each site will have only 100 tests and be open for half the day. The sites will then transition to testing capacity of 1,500.UC Davis Health will collect the specimens at each test site and StemExpress will provide results. Testing results should be made available within 72 hours.The testing sites, which are by appointment only, will be available at:La Familia Maple Neighborhood Center: 3301 37th Ave., Room 7. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. MondayNatomas Unified: 1931 Arena Blvd. Open 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. TuesdayTetteh Pediatric: 7248 S Land Park Dr. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. WednesdayRobertsons Community Center: 3525 Norwood Ave. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ThursdaySouth Sacramento Christian Center: 7710 Stockton Blvd. Open 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. FridayAppointment details will be updated on the county’s COVID-19 testing webpage.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Sacramento County Director of Health Services Dr. Peter Beilenson spoke Wednesday about how a lack of COVID-19 testing contributed to the recommendation that students should continue with distance learning in the fall.
“There’s a huge dearth of testing, a huge lack of testing in the United States because of supply chain issues, and it was going to really impact our ability to test students, contacts of students and teachers in an appropriate matter,” Beilenson said.
To help with the testing backlog, Bielenson said that Rite Aid will soon be bringing in four new COVID-19 testing sites in the Sacramento area. At those sites, people will swab their own nose and send in the sample to a lab.
“The labs are the same ones that have eight- to nine-day waiting periods right now,” he said. “Some of the labs, some of the big labs, are up to 10 to 12 days waiting period, which makes it virtually irrelevant to test, because as we know now, as everybody knows, it’s a 14-day window of quarantining.”
Sacramento County announced later Wednesday it is teaming up with StemExpress to reopen five community-based COVID-19 testing sites.
The sites closed, then reopened with fewer hours due to the nationwide testing supply shortage, officials said earlier this month.
“The relaunch of the partnership provides a much-needed service to expand testing that is critical to offer accessible testing led by and within the diverse neighborhoods of Sacramento County,” Sacramento County spokesperson Jana Haynes said in a news release.
The testing sites will launch July 20. For the first week, each site will have only 100 tests and be open for half the day. The sites will then transition to testing capacity of 1,500.
UC Davis Health will collect the specimens at each test site and StemExpress will provide results. Testing results should be made available within 72 hours.
The testing sites, which are by appointment only, will be available at:
- La Familia Maple Neighborhood Center: 3301 37th Ave., Room 7. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
- Natomas Unified: 1931 Arena Blvd. Open 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday
- Tetteh Pediatric: 7248 S Land Park Dr. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday
- Robertsons Community Center: 3525 Norwood Ave. Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday
- South Sacramento Christian Center: 7710 Stockton Blvd. Open 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday
Appointment details will be updated on the county’s COVID-19 testing webpage.
