Santa Clara County health officials are encouraging residents to get tested for the coronavirus as testing rates have dropped by 34 percent in the last 2 months
Health officials say testing is critical to understanding where the region stands in the pandemic, particularly as new variants continue to circulate in the region.
“If we are not testing robustly in the community, it narrows our view of where the virus is circulating, and to what level it is spreading. Testing also allows us to break the chains of transmission and reduce spread, which gives the virus less opportunities to replicate and mutate,” Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, county Covid-19 testing and vaccine cfficer, said in a statement.
County public health officials continue urging community members to practice social distancing and consistently wear face coverings, even if vaccinated.
For those who may have been exposed to the virus, testing remains free, easy, and confidential. It is available seven days a week and there are a number of options for different needs, including appointment or drop-in, drive-through or walk-up, and specimen collection by nasal swab or saliva. Frontline workers should get tested at least once a month and up to once every two weeks, and continue testing even after being vaccinated.
Testing will be available this week in San Jose, Gilroy, Sunnyvale, Morgan Hill, Santa Clara, Campbell and Palo Alto.
“Bay Area County Health Officers set a goal of 200 tests per day per 100,000 people. ” or about 4K per day in Santa Clara County, which is currently averaging close to 15K tests a day. 15K>4K Santa Clara county is testing far more than necessary to maintain surveillance of Covid. Moreover, positivity rates < 1% indicate the surveillance is well in hand. Just more Scare tactics from The Ministry of Covid Compliance and their running dog media.
“Santa Clara County health officials are encouraging residents to get tested for the coronavirus as testing rates have dropped by 34 percent in the last 2 months”
And so have cases, hospitalizations and so on… This is quite terrifying to health directors and our governor as the justification for keeping their knees on our necks becomes even more untenable.
“County public health officials continue urging community members to practice social distancing and consistently wear face coverings, even if vaccinated.”
Without stating any evidence that any of the nonsense does anything at all other than to remind us of why we need to recall our governor and change laws so that health directors are held personally liable for needlessly destroying the millions of businesses, lives and the future of a generation of kids.
“Health officials say testing is critical to understanding where the region stands in the pandemic, particularly as new variants continue to circulate in the region.”
Yawn. We already went through 12 months of needless catastrophizing. No one is listening anymore.
“If we are not testing robustly in the community, it narrows our view of where the virus is circulating, and to what level it is spreading.”
Quite to the contrary. We’ve seen that needless testing provides a false justification for locking down healthy adults and kids who are at little to no risk from the virus.
You can spend all day long writing unsubstantiated notes here for Gavin and Quack Cody. Nothing you are likely being paid by them to write here can bring back our needlessly lost businesses, jobs or the future for a generation of kids.
How about the “I’m a zoom parent” lie from Gavin while his kids have been in in person private schools for months while he locked our kids out of school?
Or ‘We need to stay home while he goes out to dinner with his rich friends’?
Please just stop with the lies and hypocrisy.
Time for catastrophizing is long since past.
SCC has thousands of empty ICU beds. They took them out of the count last year to justify further needless shutdowns. People don’t seem to understand you can’t keep empty beds fully staffed because we hospitals have to pay their doctors and nurses. So, they bring online the beds they need. It is financially impossible to keep 50% of empty beds fully staffed. It’s all really dumb and why people would continue to defend poor decision making in California is baffling.
Studies quoted remind me of the others who posted that covid causes long term lung damage. The study was performed on chain smokers. We have no scientists left in the world as far as I can tell.