California is cutting off funding for COVID-19 testing just when counties say they need more resources in rural and disadvantaged areas.
Twenty California counties have re-opened, but according to a Times analysis, testing to date remains low in many rural parts of the state. One challenge: Some residents don’t want it.
State Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly confirmed that California is pulling sites out of counties that aren’t generating high enough numbers and cutting off funding for new locations. Counties argue that there’s a public health benefit to keeping underperforming locations open — simply to ensure that testing is available to rural and disenfranchised communities. Across the state, counties are fighting to save state-funded sites even as they are being overwhelmed by increased numbers of COVID-19 cases, linked largely to social gatherings.
Alameda County grew so frustrated with state requirements that it undertook a testing expansion of its own. Ghaly said the state is working with counties in danger of losing sites to give them a chance to fill testing slots. State officials declined to say how many counties have lost sites, but as new infections have soared, testing numbers are starting to pick back up. The list of counties at risk of losing a site has dwindled from around a dozen in early June to a few last week.
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