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Online and in stores, major retailers are sold out of the popular at-home COVID-19 tests, and medical supply vendors cant find enough rapid test kits for schools, shelters, nursing homes, employers and other groups.

MDH, CIAN & City of Praise Family Ministries host free COVID testing site in Landover Share Article CIAN Diagnostics, MDH and City of Praise Family Ministries are providing hundreds of free COVID-19 tests daily in Prince Georges County “Our goal is, and always has been, to keep Maryland safe as we all work toward brighter days.” FREDERICK, Md. (PRWEB) May 04, 2021 CIAN Diagnostics is maintaining its strategic position on the f...

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Underscores How Rapid COVID Testing Can Facilitate Safe Reopening of Schools SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond hosted a statewide webinar today with health experts and educators that addressed the use of rapid COVID-19 testing as a tool to safely resume in-person learning on school campuses. “I strongly believe that while we wait for a full vaccine roll-out, we also need to be moving toward a strategy for the depl...

A rural Northern California health department says it was handling coronavirus testing just fine until the state got involved. In Lassen County, health officials had been running their own free testing clinics since last spring. But in January, OptumServe, a private company hired by the state, took over, leading to what the county spokesman called an inefficient and expensive “boondoggle.” Now, county officials are cutting ties with OptumServe and blasting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administrati...

NorCal counties to State: Get out of the way, give us vaccine, let us handle it Some Northern California counties are tired of the states top down approach and are asking the state to step aside and let the counties handle their own community. Author: Eric Escalante Updated: 6:52 AM PST February 26, 2021 LASSEN COUNTY, Calif. — The top-down approach from the state reached a breaking point in Lassen County after local leaders cut ties with OptumServe, a state pa...

But now, the same NCBE that spent the whole year declaring that absolutely nothing needed to change announced the results of its own three-year study conducted by its Testing Task Force promising big changes that might calm the mounting pressure on the licensing process… in five years or so. The new recommendations would not come into effect until 2026 at the earliest, but at least they address the core problems with the exam outlined over the last year, right? Mostly wrong. In defense of the...

Jurisdictions with COVID-19-related diploma privilege are going back to bar exam admissions   Image from Shutterstock.com. As of Dec. 3, the five jurisdictions with emergency diploma privilege precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic had announced plans for a remote bar exam in February 2021. Louisiana scheduled a remote open-book bar in February, according to a Nov. 25 state supreme court order. The other four jurisdictions—Washington, D.C.; Utah; Oregon; and Washington—have announced remote...

Pyongyang is more robust than ever thanks to this testing task force. the athletes that go there can be more confident than ever going to south korea. in search of our big idaho potato truck. but not any more. i am done with that. ooh, ooh hot - just gonna stay home on the farm, eat a beautiful idaho potato, and watch tv with my dog... tv anncr: the big idaho potato truck pulled into town today and its really a sight to see. oh man...lets go.... (distant) you comin, boy? sfx: (dog) gulp! woof.