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Officials with the state’s health department are urging school districts to resume COVID-19 saliva screenings at the start of the 2022-23 school year.
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Schools interested in renewing with SHIELD or beginning a partnership should sign up by July 15 to guarantee testing on the first day of school, IDPH officials said.
Month with the remaining tests going out over the next 60 days. >> i am hearing from so many schools that are having trouble staying open, they want to stay open. part of it is they have staff that are sick, but a big part of it is they don't have access to safety measures like masks and testing supplies. what do i tell them about where they go to get that? >> schools having enough testing supplies to stay open is a critical priority for us. we've invested $10 billion of the american rescue plan given to states to support and stand up testing programs. we've also invested $650 million in a pro...
Time the administration has committed to purchasing tests to send to the american households. >> so is that asper or d.o.d. because of all the notifications of contracts signed, i've seen them from d.o.d., not hhs. >> thank you for that question. we use -- we have a relationship with d.o.d. for assisted acquisitions so as per will request that d.o.d. put out a solicitation or manage a contract on our behalf. they are able to do it extraordinarily quickly and we've had an mou in place with d.o.d. for this work that will run through june 2023. we've used this relationship to purchase vaccines an...
Around someone vulnerable. same thing with testing. the blanket universal testing guidance when we really need to ration a limited supply. something the cdc hasn't been comfortable with from the start. >> dana: they will no doubt be asked about testing. the white house has said that these tests were coming. it seems like the tests will get there after the peak of omicron. >> that's right. we'll be in a much better place in three or four weeks if we follow the pattern of south africa. no reason to think we're not going to. right now about half of 1% of all americans are getting the infection pe...