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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 site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a day. The city-run ve...

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 recent surge. Its redeployment to the cause of vaccination, Newsom declared, provides "an extraordinary w...

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 report, it does correctly identify the need to transition the exam from one based upon encyclopedic...