L.A. County has made free testing available to anyone who wants it, symptoms or not. Is that good public policy?
The last time I traveled along Stadium Way I was headed to a Dodger game, but on Monday afternoon I drove to the fire training center near the ballpark for a much less enjoyable experience.No beer, no Dodger dogs. Just a cotton swab and a five-minute drive-through, with results to follow in a few days.
“So long as COVID-19 spreads, we have to scale up our response — and because this disease can be a silent killer, we have carefully built the capacity to get more people tested,” Dr. Michael Hochman, a Keck Medical Center physician and director of the USC Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation, said some experts have called for repeated testing of the entire population, which would be highly impractical and wouldn’t necessarily be all that useful.
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