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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...

Article content Ottawa added another 237 COVID-19 cases Monday, the province reported nearly 6,000 more infections over two days of the Easter weekend, schools were ordered closed in Peel Region and Ottawa’s medical officer of health joined an “urgent” call for an immediate stay-at-home order in Ontario. On a bad news Monday, Ottawa’s COVID-19 Testing Task Force said the city’s positivity rate is now 7.8 per cent, more than triple the threshold to be considered in the “red zone” u...

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...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recall effort moves closer to making the ballot as 1.1 million signatures are submitted; Recall Gavin Newsom senior adviser Randy Economy joins ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’ Former Newport Beach Mayor Will O’Neill took to Facebook on Friday to bring attention to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s use of "behested payments," a technically legal but highly opaque practice that can generate untold amounts of "donations" to politicians’ preferred projects and non-pro...

Jan 25, 2021 9:32am Once a broad swath of the population has been vaccinated, which could take many months, testing volume will likely drop off sharply. However ongoing outbreaks may require increased testing, particularly in poorer communities of color, which have been hit hardest by the pandemic. (Getty Images) California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering COVID-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination si...

Vaccine ramp-up squeezes covid testing and tracing California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a day. The city-run venue had been the biggest covid testing site in the U.S., administering over 1 million tests in its nearly eight months of operation — and over 10,000 a day during the recen...

California's ability to multitask is being tested as health officials scramble to find staff for vaccination sites while maintaining testing and contact tracing.

California's ability to multitask is being tested as health officials scramble to find staff for vaccination sites while maintaining testing and contact tracing.

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...