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FM","link":"/"}},"news_11902122":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11902122","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11902122","score":null,"sort":[1642721680000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-home-covid-test-reimbursement-from-blue-shield-to-kaiser-how-to-get-your-health-insurance-to-pay-you-back","title":"At-Home COVID Test Reimbursement: From Blue Shield to Kaiser, How to Get Your Health Insurance to Pay You Back","publishDate":1642721680,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Jan. 15, 2022, people with private health insurance can get reimbursed by their insurer for the cost of up to eight at-home COVID tests per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This program applies only to at-home tests purchased on or after Jan. 15, 2022, and covers eight free tests \u003cem>per covered individual\u003c/em> per month. \"That means \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/14/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-to-begin-distributing-at-home-rapid-covid-19-tests-to-americans-for-free/\">a family of four, all on the same plan, would be able to get 32 of these tests\u003c/a> covered by their health plan per month,\" the White House has confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#covidtestreimbursement\">How does reimbursement for COVID tests work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#insurancelist\">Find your health insurer and their policy in our list\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#many\">How many COVID tests will insurance cover?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#noinsurance\">What if you don't have health insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember, this reimbursement is completely different from the White House program that allows you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order free at-home COVID tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order those four free tests per residential address via USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First off, will the states of emergency ending affect my reimbursement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 28, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929285/newsom-to-end-californias-covid-state-of-emergency-in-february\">California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will officially come to an end\u003c/a>. The White House has also announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1152702709/covid-emergency-declarations-end-white-house\">the federal state of emergency for COVID will then end on May 11\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the national emergency \u003cem>will\u003c/em> have big effects upon nationwide funding for COVID vaccines and testing, and will stop requiring insurers to cover reimbursement for COVID tests. But California has enacted several laws that force insurers to keep covering such COVID care, even after the state and federal states of emergency wind down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1473\">State Bill 1473\u003c/a> — requires insurers to not only keep covering the costs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914514/if-you-get-covid-should-you-try-to-get-paxlovid-heres-how-with-or-without-health-insurance\">COVID therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid\u003c/a>, but also to keep reimbursing their members for the costs of up to eight over-the-counter COVID tests a month. But this law only keeps the current situation in place until six months after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-07/with-covid-emergency-ending-will-i-have-to-pay-for-tests\">end of the federal emergency.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that after Nov. 11, if you want Paxlovid or to get reimbursed for COVID tests by an insurer, you’ll have to make sure you are obtaining these services \"in-network.\" And at this stage of the year, specific details about what that’ll look like in practice come November are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"covidtestreimbursement\">\u003c/a>The two ways that reimbursement works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have private health insurance, how you get your reimbursement and your tests — and whether you get reimbursed after purchase or have costs covered up-front — totally depends on which insurer you have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each insurance company is doing this differently, so make sure you know what’s available for you according to your plan \u003cem>before\u003c/em> you buy a test.[aside postID=news_11901928 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People covered by Medicare are currently not eligible to get reimbursed for at-home COVID-19 tests. However, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans \u003cem>are\u003c/em> required to cover the costs of at-home tests. In California, this includes all Medi-Cal plans as well. If your Medi-Cal plan is provided by any of the major insurers we include in our guide, you can request a reimbursement by following the same format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some insurers will reimburse for the tests you've purchased\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurance companies, like Kaiser Permanente, Aetna and Blue Shield of California, are asking policyholders to request a reimbursement \u003cem>after\u003c/em> purchasing a COVID-19 test by filling out a claim form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These forms are usually returned by mail, and you'll most likely find the address for where to mail it on the form itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reimbursement forms request that you also submit a receipt of these purchases — so if you buy the tests at a pharmacy, be sure to keep your receipt. Some insurers are also now requesting that you provide a UPC code (a.k.a. the barcode) from the box for the tests you purchased. So to maximize your chances of getting your reimbursement, be sure to keep your receipt and your boxes for any tests you purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some insurers will cover the cost of your tests up-front \u003cem>when\u003c/em> you buy them\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurance companies are choosing to cover the cost of tests at the time of purchase. For example, that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/health-and-wellness/health-topics/covid-19/coverage-and-resources/covid-19-at-home-testing-coverage/preferred-retailers\">what UnitedHealthcare is doing with a very select number of test providers\u003c/a>, like Rite Aid and Walmart Pharmacy. If you’re covered by UHC and have Optum Rx benefits, you can show your member ID card when picking up your tests at one of these stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other insurers, encouraged by the federal government, also have set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/how-to-get-your-at-home-OTC-COVID-19-test-for-free\">networks of preferred stores and pharmacies where policyholders can get tests with no up-front costs\u003c/a>. If your insurer has set up a network like this, you can still buy tests from other places — but you most likely won’t be fully reimbursed, because insurance companies are only required to cover up to $12 per test if they were bought outside that network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, only \u003cem>some\u003c/em> insurance companies have a network of preferred test providers. If your insurer doesn’t have one, you can go through the regular reimbursement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11901953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close up shot of boxes of COVID at-home test kits\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-1536x1050.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beginning Tuesday, you can also order up to four at-home COVID tests per household, to be delivered for free via the United States Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"insurancelist\">\u003c/a>How does your health insurer handle reimbursement for at-home COVID tests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Permanente\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/coronavirus-information/testing#faqs-on.html#/signon\">Submit a reimbursement form online \u003c/a>(scroll down to \"Get reimbursed for a home test purchased outside Kaiser Permanente,\" and follow the link to log in to your KP account).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/FI-KP-Medical-Claim-Form_web-document.pdf\">Kaiser Permanente at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form\u003c/a> (will download PDF).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kaiser's California Member Services hotline is (800) 464-4000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blue Shield of California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueshieldca.com/bsca/bsc/public/common/PortalComponents/sites/StreamDocumentServlet?fileName=SITES_Other_2022_COVID%20Test%20Claim%20Form_v1_12232021.pdf\">Blue Shield at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UnitedHealthcare (UHC)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Get your costs covered up-front when you purchase through an approved test provider.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you have an Optum Rx logo on your member ID card, you can buy your at-home COVID tests from one of\u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/health-and-wellness/health-topics/covid-19/coverage-and-resources/covid-19-at-home-testing-coverage/preferred-retailers\"> UnitedHealthcare's \"preferred retailers\" \u003c/a>and have the costs covered at the point of purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you choose to buy a test outside the network, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/memberresources/forms/PDF-UA-Over-the-Counter-OTC-At-home-COVID-19-Test-Reimbursement-Form.pdf\">you will have to submit a claim reimbursement form, available here (PDF)\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that UHC will cover only up to $12 for each individual test. So if you bought 10 tests for the price of $30 each, United will only cover $120 out of the $300 total cost.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cigna\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail or fax.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cigna.com/static/www-cigna-com/docs/coronavirus/covid-otc-med-claim-form.pdf\">Cigna at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Please note: \u003ca href=\"https://www.cigna.com/coronavirus/\">Cigna says it will not cover tests bought for employment purposes.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cigna will cover the full cost of at-home tests, regardless of whether you buy them from providers inside or outside their network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthem Blue Cross\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form online.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign into \u003ca href=\"https://www.anthem.com/login/\">anthem.com \u003c/a>using your Anthem insurance plan credentials. Once logged in, click on the Claims & Payments tab (located in the upper-left portion of the screen), and then select the Submit a Claim option.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You'll then see an electronic form that asks you for certain information, including whether you bought the test within the U.S. or abroad, the location and date of your purchase and a photo or scan of the receipt to verify your purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aetna\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form online.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign into \u003ca href=\"https://member.aetna.com/MbrLanding/RoutingServlet?createSession=true&custNumSel=A&serviceName=home&ae_ptparam_cmpId=int_aetnaco\">Aetna's member website\u003c/a> using your insurance plan credentials. Once logged in, click on “Submit a claim for reimbursement.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You'll then see an electronic form that asks you for certain information, including the location and date of your purchase and a photo or scan of the receipt to verify your purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aetna.com/individuals-families/member-rights-resources/covid19/otc-in-home-test-faqs.html\">Aetna's FAQ on reimbursement\u003c/a>, once your claim is approved, a check will be mailed to you.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"many\">\u003c/a>How many COVID tests will my insurance cover?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each person covered in your plan is eligible for eight free tests each month. Insurance companies are quick to point out that this means eight \u003cem>individual\u003c/em> tests, not eight packs of tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11898455 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52826_GettyImages-1227768883-qut.jpg']Some tests are being sold as a two-pack, where one box includes two tests. If you buy one of these boxes, your insurance will count that as two from your eight available monthly tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most insurance companies are defining a \"month\" as a 30-day period, so it's also a good idea to keep track of the dates of your purchases to make sure you don't exceed the cap and miss out on a reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"noinsurance\">\u003c/a>What if I don't have health insurance?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember, you don't need health insurance to \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order four free at-home COVID tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order four free tests per residential address via USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you or someone in your community doesn't have access to the internet to order these free tests, USPS says you can contact their helpline by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489). Please note that an earlier version of this number given on USPS's FAQs appears to have been the wrong one. You should also be prepared for potentially long wait times using this helpline.\u003cbr>\nYou can also\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898455/where-to-find-a-covid-test-near-you-in-the-bay-area\"> use our guide to look for a free or low-cost COVID test near you\u003c/a>, many of which do not require health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>We want our coverage to be complete and helpful to our audiences. If you're facing issues with your insurer in processing a reimbursement, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNeTOr9UQF0xOIVQ3JDd5QptMeUNgPFhLy9mM8ZUEiO0CSlQ/viewform?embedded=true\">let us know here\u003c/a> or by filling out the form below. Please note that we won't be able to respond to you personally, but will update this guide with new information we find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNeTOr9UQF0xOIVQ3JDd5QptMeUNgPFhLy9mM8ZUEiO0CSlQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting by KQED's Carly Severn.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"How to get reimbursed for at-home COVID tests by health insurer: Whether you have Kaiser, Blue Shield, UHC, Cigna or another provider, here's how to get your money.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1676595309,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":true,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1782},"headData":{"title":"At-Home COVID Test Reimbursement: From Blue Shield to Kaiser, How to Get Your Health Insurance to Pay You Back | KQED","description":"How to get reimbursed for at-home COVID tests by health insurer: Whether you have Kaiser, Blue Shield, UHC, Cigna or another provider, here's how to get your money.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At-Home COVID Test Reimbursement: From Blue Shield to Kaiser, How to Get Your Health Insurance to Pay You Back","datePublished":"2022-01-20T23:34:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-02-17T00:55:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[%E2%80%A6]f-aaef00f5a073/795653b2-a212-4054-b210-ae29016acbe4/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11902122/at-home-covid-test-reimbursement-from-blue-shield-to-kaiser-how-to-get-your-health-insurance-to-pay-you-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Jan. 15, 2022, people with private health insurance can get reimbursed by their insurer for the cost of up to eight at-home COVID tests per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This program applies only to at-home tests purchased on or after Jan. 15, 2022, and covers eight free tests \u003cem>per covered individual\u003c/em> per month. \"That means \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/14/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-to-begin-distributing-at-home-rapid-covid-19-tests-to-americans-for-free/\">a family of four, all on the same plan, would be able to get 32 of these tests\u003c/a> covered by their health plan per month,\" the White House has confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#covidtestreimbursement\">How does reimbursement for COVID tests work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#insurancelist\">Find your health insurer and their policy in our list\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#many\">How many COVID tests will insurance cover?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#noinsurance\">What if you don't have health insurance?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember, this reimbursement is completely different from the White House program that allows you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order free at-home COVID tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order those four free tests per residential address via USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First off, will the states of emergency ending affect my reimbursement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 28, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929285/newsom-to-end-californias-covid-state-of-emergency-in-february\">California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will officially come to an end\u003c/a>. The White House has also announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1152702709/covid-emergency-declarations-end-white-house\">the federal state of emergency for COVID will then end on May 11\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the national emergency \u003cem>will\u003c/em> have big effects upon nationwide funding for COVID vaccines and testing, and will stop requiring insurers to cover reimbursement for COVID tests. But California has enacted several laws that force insurers to keep covering such COVID care, even after the state and federal states of emergency wind down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1473\">State Bill 1473\u003c/a> — requires insurers to not only keep covering the costs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914514/if-you-get-covid-should-you-try-to-get-paxlovid-heres-how-with-or-without-health-insurance\">COVID therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid\u003c/a>, but also to keep reimbursing their members for the costs of up to eight over-the-counter COVID tests a month. But this law only keeps the current situation in place until six months after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-07/with-covid-emergency-ending-will-i-have-to-pay-for-tests\">end of the federal emergency.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that after Nov. 11, if you want Paxlovid or to get reimbursed for COVID tests by an insurer, you’ll have to make sure you are obtaining these services \"in-network.\" And at this stage of the year, specific details about what that’ll look like in practice come November are lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"covidtestreimbursement\">\u003c/a>The two ways that reimbursement works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have private health insurance, how you get your reimbursement and your tests — and whether you get reimbursed after purchase or have costs covered up-front — totally depends on which insurer you have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each insurance company is doing this differently, so make sure you know what’s available for you according to your plan \u003cem>before\u003c/em> you buy a test.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11901928","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People covered by Medicare are currently not eligible to get reimbursed for at-home COVID-19 tests. However, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plans \u003cem>are\u003c/em> required to cover the costs of at-home tests. In California, this includes all Medi-Cal plans as well. If your Medi-Cal plan is provided by any of the major insurers we include in our guide, you can request a reimbursement by following the same format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some insurers will reimburse for the tests you've purchased\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurance companies, like Kaiser Permanente, Aetna and Blue Shield of California, are asking policyholders to request a reimbursement \u003cem>after\u003c/em> purchasing a COVID-19 test by filling out a claim form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These forms are usually returned by mail, and you'll most likely find the address for where to mail it on the form itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reimbursement forms request that you also submit a receipt of these purchases — so if you buy the tests at a pharmacy, be sure to keep your receipt. Some insurers are also now requesting that you provide a UPC code (a.k.a. the barcode) from the box for the tests you purchased. So to maximize your chances of getting your reimbursement, be sure to keep your receipt and your boxes for any tests you purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some insurers will cover the cost of your tests up-front \u003cem>when\u003c/em> you buy them\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurance companies are choosing to cover the cost of tests at the time of purchase. For example, that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/health-and-wellness/health-topics/covid-19/coverage-and-resources/covid-19-at-home-testing-coverage/preferred-retailers\">what UnitedHealthcare is doing with a very select number of test providers\u003c/a>, like Rite Aid and Walmart Pharmacy. If you’re covered by UHC and have Optum Rx benefits, you can show your member ID card when picking up your tests at one of these stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other insurers, encouraged by the federal government, also have set up \u003ca href=\"https://www.cms.gov/how-to-get-your-at-home-OTC-COVID-19-test-for-free\">networks of preferred stores and pharmacies where policyholders can get tests with no up-front costs\u003c/a>. If your insurer has set up a network like this, you can still buy tests from other places — but you most likely won’t be fully reimbursed, because insurance companies are only required to cover up to $12 per test if they were bought outside that network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, only \u003cem>some\u003c/em> insurance companies have a network of preferred test providers. If your insurer doesn’t have one, you can go through the regular reimbursement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11901953\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg\" alt=\"close up shot of boxes of COVID at-home test kits\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS53138_GettyImages-1361961811-qut-1536x1050.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beginning Tuesday, you can also order up to four at-home COVID tests per household, to be delivered for free via the United States Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"insurancelist\">\u003c/a>How does your health insurer handle reimbursement for at-home COVID tests?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kaiser Permanente\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/coronavirus-information/testing#faqs-on.html#/signon\">Submit a reimbursement form online \u003c/a>(scroll down to \"Get reimbursed for a home test purchased outside Kaiser Permanente,\" and follow the link to log in to your KP account).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/FI-KP-Medical-Claim-Form_web-document.pdf\">Kaiser Permanente at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form\u003c/a> (will download PDF).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kaiser's California Member Services hotline is (800) 464-4000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blue Shield of California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blueshieldca.com/bsca/bsc/public/common/PortalComponents/sites/StreamDocumentServlet?fileName=SITES_Other_2022_COVID%20Test%20Claim%20Form_v1_12232021.pdf\">Blue Shield at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UnitedHealthcare (UHC)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Get your costs covered up-front when you purchase through an approved test provider.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you have an Optum Rx logo on your member ID card, you can buy your at-home COVID tests from one of\u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/health-and-wellness/health-topics/covid-19/coverage-and-resources/covid-19-at-home-testing-coverage/preferred-retailers\"> UnitedHealthcare's \"preferred retailers\" \u003c/a>and have the costs covered at the point of purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you choose to buy a test outside the network, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/memberresources/forms/PDF-UA-Over-the-Counter-OTC-At-home-COVID-19-Test-Reimbursement-Form.pdf\">you will have to submit a claim reimbursement form, available here (PDF)\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that UHC will cover only up to $12 for each individual test. So if you bought 10 tests for the price of $30 each, United will only cover $120 out of the $300 total cost.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cigna\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form by mail or fax.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Get the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cigna.com/static/www-cigna-com/docs/coronavirus/covid-otc-med-claim-form.pdf\">Cigna at-home COVID test reimbursement claim form (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Please note: \u003ca href=\"https://www.cigna.com/coronavirus/\">Cigna says it will not cover tests bought for employment purposes.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Cigna will cover the full cost of at-home tests, regardless of whether you buy them from providers inside or outside their network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthem Blue Cross\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form online.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign into \u003ca href=\"https://www.anthem.com/login/\">anthem.com \u003c/a>using your Anthem insurance plan credentials. Once logged in, click on the Claims & Payments tab (located in the upper-left portion of the screen), and then select the Submit a Claim option.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You'll then see an electronic form that asks you for certain information, including whether you bought the test within the U.S. or abroad, the location and date of your purchase and a photo or scan of the receipt to verify your purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aetna\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to get at-home test costs covered: \u003cem>Submit a reimbursement claim form online.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign into \u003ca href=\"https://member.aetna.com/MbrLanding/RoutingServlet?createSession=true&custNumSel=A&serviceName=home&ae_ptparam_cmpId=int_aetnaco\">Aetna's member website\u003c/a> using your insurance plan credentials. Once logged in, click on “Submit a claim for reimbursement.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You'll then see an electronic form that asks you for certain information, including the location and date of your purchase and a photo or scan of the receipt to verify your purchase.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aetna.com/individuals-families/member-rights-resources/covid19/otc-in-home-test-faqs.html\">Aetna's FAQ on reimbursement\u003c/a>, once your claim is approved, a check will be mailed to you.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"many\">\u003c/a>How many COVID tests will my insurance cover?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each person covered in your plan is eligible for eight free tests each month. Insurance companies are quick to point out that this means eight \u003cem>individual\u003c/em> tests, not eight packs of tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11898455","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52826_GettyImages-1227768883-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some tests are being sold as a two-pack, where one box includes two tests. If you buy one of these boxes, your insurance will count that as two from your eight available monthly tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most insurance companies are defining a \"month\" as a 30-day period, so it's also a good idea to keep track of the dates of your purchases to make sure you don't exceed the cap and miss out on a reimbursement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"noinsurance\">\u003c/a>What if I don't have health insurance?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember, you don't need health insurance to \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order four free at-home COVID tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order four free tests per residential address via USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you or someone in your community doesn't have access to the internet to order these free tests, USPS says you can contact their helpline by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489). Please note that an earlier version of this number given on USPS's FAQs appears to have been the wrong one. You should also be prepared for potentially long wait times using this helpline.\u003cbr>\nYou can also\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898455/where-to-find-a-covid-test-near-you-in-the-bay-area\"> use our guide to look for a free or low-cost COVID test near you\u003c/a>, many of which do not require health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>We want our coverage to be complete and helpful to our audiences. If you're facing issues with your insurer in processing a reimbursement, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNeTOr9UQF0xOIVQ3JDd5QptMeUNgPFhLy9mM8ZUEiO0CSlQ/viewform?embedded=true\">let us know here\u003c/a> or by filling out the form below. Please note that we won't be able to respond to you personally, but will update this guide with new information we find.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNeTOr9UQF0xOIVQ3JDd5QptMeUNgPFhLy9mM8ZUEiO0CSlQ/viewform?embedded=true?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNeTOr9UQF0xOIVQ3JDd5QptMeUNgPFhLy9mM8ZUEiO0CSlQ/viewform?embedded=true'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting by KQED's Carly Severn.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11902122/at-home-covid-test-reimbursement-from-blue-shield-to-kaiser-how-to-get-your-health-insurance-to-pay-you-back","authors":["11708"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_29029","news_27646","news_30457","news_29123","news_29122","news_27626","news_24721"],"featImg":"news_11902215","label":"news"},"news_11901210":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901210","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901210","score":null,"sort":[1641758753000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-asks-for-2-7-billion-to-increase-access-to-testing-vaccines","title":"Newsom Calls for $2.7 Billion to Increase Hospital Staff, Testing and Vaccines","publishDate":1641758753,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">With new coronavirus cases surging across the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Saturday proposed spending another $2.7 billion to expand testing and boost hospital staffing, while calling for a new law to give workers more paid time off if they get sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">California had more than 10,100 people hospitalized with the coronavirus on Friday, or about half the peak reached during last winter’s surge. \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-california-pandemics-b6738f7feda2aa4f28d1a4ad72ca6c6b\">Demand for coronavirus testing\u003c/a> has soared along with the state’s case rates, making it difficult for many to get tested in many parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's announcement comes on the heels of another effort to increase access to testing statewide, as the governor announced Friday that he would deploy \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/01/07/governor-newsom-activates-national-guard-to-bolster-states-covid-19-testing-capacity/\">more than 200 California National Guard members\u003c/a> to help testing sites stay open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced a lag in obtaining test results. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an epidemiology professor at the University of California San Francisco, a medical school, said she heard one lab was taking nine days to return results — longer than someone exposed to COVID-19 may have to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“If you are trying to do the right thing, and you decided to wait in line to get a test, having a long time to get actionable information is not helpful,” she said. “It’s sort of absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Some people have resorted to paying $100 or more for a rapid result — something many can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1479659888200413184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Of the $2.7 billion in newly announced spending, about $1.2 billion would be for testing, including money to pay for extending the hours and capacity at state-run testing sites, while also sending millions of tests to local health departments, community clinics and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Newsom wants the Democrat-dominated state Legislature to approve $1.4 billion of the money right away so he can spend it now instead of waiting for the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">The state already has $1.7 billion to fight the pandemic, money the state Legislature approved last summer. But the Newsom administration says they need more money to continue spending at the same level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">The omicron variant spreads even more easily than other coronavirus strains, and has already become dominant in many countries. It also more easily infects those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by prior versions of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">However, early studies show omicron is less likely to cause severe illness than the previous delta variant, and vaccination and a booster still offer strong protection from serious illness, hospitalization and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“From day one, California has taken swift and direct action to battle COVID-19 with policies that have saved tens of thousands of lives, but there’s more work to be done,” Newsom said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's spending proposal is lumped into a few categories:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expanding testing site hours, distributing millions of antigen tests\u003c/strong>: $1.2 billion, which would also fund expansion of the state's ability to collect testing specimens to deliver to labs, which is the main bottleneck in speedy testing, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">\u003cstrong>Hospital staffing and health care systems\u003c/strong>: $614 million to help staffing shortages in hospitals and vaccination sites, among other patient care efforts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Vaccination efforts\u003c/strong>: $583 million to continue the \"Vaccinate All 58\" public education campaign, conducting community outreach door to door to get more people vaccinated, providing in-home vaccination and testing and providing free transportation throughout the state for vaccinations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Supporting contact tracing\u003c/strong>: $110 million, which would support what the governor's office called \"increased public health and humanitarian efforts\" at the Mexico border, including vaccinations, testing and quarantine services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Other state operations\u003c/strong>: $200 million would go toward staffing and IT support at the California Department of Public Health, Office of Emergency Services, and Emergency Medical Services Authority.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">It’s unclear whether lawmakers would agree to spend the money early. Last month, Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco, said he did not think there was any need to \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-health-elections-california-97563046f44e0255d7ae2d4f5d43c735\">rush to approve new spending\u003c/a>. But at the time, Ting said things could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">One thing that has changed since last month is that more people are testing positive for the virus. Over the past seven days, 21.7% of those tested for the virus have tested positive. That’s the highest rate ever for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitalizations are on the rise, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday, state hospitals admitted almost 2,800 people for COVID-19 treatment. Statewide, more than 10,000 people are hospitalized for COVID. There are 52,000 people hospitalized in general statewide, the governor’s office said, just shy of the winter hospitalization peak last year when 53,000 were hospitalized statewide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">With more people testing positive, Newsom is asking the state Legislature for a new law requiring companies to give workers more paid time off if they get sick. Last year, California had \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/legislature-gavin-newsom-bills-california-coronavirus-pandemic-6d6b07a66d098236d01b3affbd9ccdc0\">a law that required companies with 26 employees or more to give their workers\u003c/a> up to an additional 80 hours of paid sick leave for things like having coronavirus symptoms, scheduling a vaccine or caring for a child who is doing school at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">That law expired in September and state lawmakers did not extend it. Now, Newsom wants to bring some form of it back. It’s unclear what he’s asking for, however. A news release from his office called for “new legislation to implement supplemental paid sick leave policies given the current situation being driven by the Omicron variant to better protect our frontline workers.” It did not provide more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide shortages have led to people paying out of pocket to access COVID tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Shane Hirschman, a 36-year-old from San Clemente, said he ordered a mail-in test kit from the Orange County health agency last week but never received one. When he started feeling sick this week, he said he couldn’t find an at-home kit in stores and testing appointments at nearby pharmacies were booked. He wound up paying nearly $100 for a rapid test to confirm he didn’t have the variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“They’ve had a year and a half to sort this out and it shouldn’t be like this,” he said. “I don’t feel like I can pay 100 bucks every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">In Los Angeles County, where a quarter of the state’s nearly 40 million people live, overwhelming demand prompted a temporary halt to a program that allowed people to test at home and mail back their sample. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said she hopes the testing crunch will ease in coming days. In the meantime, she urged restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“Please don’t decide that because you didn’t get tested, you don’t have COVID and you don’t have to stay home if you’ve got symptoms,” she said. “We do ask while we’re trying to increase testing capacity and make it much easier for everyone who [needs] to test to get a test that you please stay home while you’re symptomatic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Kate Wolffe and The Associated Press's Amy Taxin and Christopher Weber contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The governor's effort to increase access to COVID testing comes after he announced the deployment of the California National Guard to extend testing hours. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1641854959,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":1254},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Calls for $2.7 Billion to Increase Hospital Staff, Testing and Vaccines | KQED","description":"The governor's effort to increase access to COVID testing comes after he announced the deployment of the California National Guard to extend testing hours. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Calls for $2.7 Billion to Increase Hospital Staff, Testing and Vaccines","datePublished":"2022-01-09T20:05:53.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-10T22:49:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11901210 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11901210","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/09/newsom-asks-for-2-7-billion-to-increase-access-to-testing-vaccines/","disqusTitle":"Newsom Calls for $2.7 Billion to Increase Hospital Staff, Testing and Vaccines","source":"The Associated Press","sourceUrl":"apnews.com","nprByline":"Adam Beam","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11901210/newsom-asks-for-2-7-billion-to-increase-access-to-testing-vaccines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">With new coronavirus cases surging across the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Saturday proposed spending another $2.7 billion to expand testing and boost hospital staffing, while calling for a new law to give workers more paid time off if they get sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">California had more than 10,100 people hospitalized with the coronavirus on Friday, or about half the peak reached during last winter’s surge. \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-california-pandemics-b6738f7feda2aa4f28d1a4ad72ca6c6b\">Demand for coronavirus testing\u003c/a> has soared along with the state’s case rates, making it difficult for many to get tested in many parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's announcement comes on the heels of another effort to increase access to testing statewide, as the governor announced Friday that he would deploy \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/01/07/governor-newsom-activates-national-guard-to-bolster-states-covid-19-testing-capacity/\">more than 200 California National Guard members\u003c/a> to help testing sites stay open longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced a lag in obtaining test results. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an epidemiology professor at the University of California San Francisco, a medical school, said she heard one lab was taking nine days to return results — longer than someone exposed to COVID-19 may have to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“If you are trying to do the right thing, and you decided to wait in line to get a test, having a long time to get actionable information is not helpful,” she said. “It’s sort of absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Some people have resorted to paying $100 or more for a rapid result — something many can’t afford.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1479659888200413184"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Of the $2.7 billion in newly announced spending, about $1.2 billion would be for testing, including money to pay for extending the hours and capacity at state-run testing sites, while also sending millions of tests to local health departments, community clinics and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Newsom wants the Democrat-dominated state Legislature to approve $1.4 billion of the money right away so he can spend it now instead of waiting for the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">The state already has $1.7 billion to fight the pandemic, money the state Legislature approved last summer. But the Newsom administration says they need more money to continue spending at the same level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">The omicron variant spreads even more easily than other coronavirus strains, and has already become dominant in many countries. It also more easily infects those who have been vaccinated or had previously been infected by prior versions of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">However, early studies show omicron is less likely to cause severe illness than the previous delta variant, and vaccination and a booster still offer strong protection from serious illness, hospitalization and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“From day one, California has taken swift and direct action to battle COVID-19 with policies that have saved tens of thousands of lives, but there’s more work to be done,” Newsom said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's spending proposal is lumped into a few categories:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expanding testing site hours, distributing millions of antigen tests\u003c/strong>: $1.2 billion, which would also fund expansion of the state's ability to collect testing specimens to deliver to labs, which is the main bottleneck in speedy testing, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">\u003cstrong>Hospital staffing and health care systems\u003c/strong>: $614 million to help staffing shortages in hospitals and vaccination sites, among other patient care efforts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Vaccination efforts\u003c/strong>: $583 million to continue the \"Vaccinate All 58\" public education campaign, conducting community outreach door to door to get more people vaccinated, providing in-home vaccination and testing and providing free transportation throughout the state for vaccinations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Supporting contact tracing\u003c/strong>: $110 million, which would support what the governor's office called \"increased public health and humanitarian efforts\" at the Mexico border, including vaccinations, testing and quarantine services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Other state operations\u003c/strong>: $200 million would go toward staffing and IT support at the California Department of Public Health, Office of Emergency Services, and Emergency Medical Services Authority.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">It’s unclear whether lawmakers would agree to spend the money early. Last month, Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco, said he did not think there was any need to \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-health-elections-california-97563046f44e0255d7ae2d4f5d43c735\">rush to approve new spending\u003c/a>. But at the time, Ting said things could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">One thing that has changed since last month is that more people are testing positive for the virus. Over the past seven days, 21.7% of those tested for the virus have tested positive. That’s the highest rate ever for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitalizations are on the rise, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday, state hospitals admitted almost 2,800 people for COVID-19 treatment. Statewide, more than 10,000 people are hospitalized for COVID. There are 52,000 people hospitalized in general statewide, the governor’s office said, just shy of the winter hospitalization peak last year when 53,000 were hospitalized statewide.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">With more people testing positive, Newsom is asking the state Legislature for a new law requiring companies to give workers more paid time off if they get sick. Last year, California had \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/legislature-gavin-newsom-bills-california-coronavirus-pandemic-6d6b07a66d098236d01b3affbd9ccdc0\">a law that required companies with 26 employees or more to give their workers\u003c/a> up to an additional 80 hours of paid sick leave for things like having coronavirus symptoms, scheduling a vaccine or caring for a child who is doing school at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">That law expired in September and state lawmakers did not extend it. Now, Newsom wants to bring some form of it back. It’s unclear what he’s asking for, however. A news release from his office called for “new legislation to implement supplemental paid sick leave policies given the current situation being driven by the Omicron variant to better protect our frontline workers.” It did not provide more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide shortages have led to people paying out of pocket to access COVID tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">Shane Hirschman, a 36-year-old from San Clemente, said he ordered a mail-in test kit from the Orange County health agency last week but never received one. When he started feeling sick this week, he said he couldn’t find an at-home kit in stores and testing appointments at nearby pharmacies were booked. He wound up paying nearly $100 for a rapid test to confirm he didn’t have the variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“They’ve had a year and a half to sort this out and it shouldn’t be like this,” he said. “I don’t feel like I can pay 100 bucks every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">In Los Angeles County, where a quarter of the state’s nearly 40 million people live, overwhelming demand prompted a temporary halt to a program that allowed people to test at home and mail back their sample. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said she hopes the testing crunch will ease in coming days. In the meantime, she urged restraint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-245 Component-p-0-2-236\">“Please don’t decide that because you didn’t get tested, you don’t have COVID and you don’t have to stay home if you’ve got symptoms,” she said. “We do ask while we’re trying to increase testing capacity and make it much easier for everyone who [needs] to test to get a test that you please stay home while you’re symptomatic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Kate Wolffe and The Associated Press's Amy Taxin and Christopher Weber contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901210/newsom-asks-for-2-7-billion-to-increase-access-to-testing-vaccines","authors":["byline_news_11901210"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_29123","news_27626","news_16","news_79","news_23596","news_24721"],"featImg":"news_11830964","label":"source_news_11901210"},"news_11901008":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901008","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901008","score":null,"sort":[1641586543000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"covid-tests-from-rapid-home-tests-to-pcr-heres-what-to-know-right-now","title":"COVID Tests: From Rapid Home Tests to PCRs, Here's What to Know Right Now","publishDate":1641586543,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, Jan. 19.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, the U.S. would be awash in COVID tests. Anyone exposed to the coronavirus could self-test or go to a lab or clinic if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, self-tests are in short supply in many parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11898455\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52826_GettyImages-1227768883-qut.jpg\"]Test manufacturers are ramping up production, so hopefully — at some point — you won't be seeing those \"no tests available\" signs at your local pharmacy or have to wait a week or more for tests ordered online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900296/cdc-recommends-shorter-covid-isolation-and-quarantine-periods\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its testing guidelines in the wake of the omicron surge\u003c/a> in the U.S. — and public health researchers are critical of some of the recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a lot of confusion, so we've compiled some frequently asked questions about COVID-19 tests. Don't have time to go through the whole guide? Click the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#types\">\u003cstrong>What types of COVID tests are there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#difference\">What's the difference between antigen and PCR tests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#time\">\u003cstrong>When is the right time to get tested?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#many\">How many tests should I take?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#before\">\u003cstrong>Should I get tested before seeing people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#accurate\">If I test negative, how accurate is that result?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#positive\">\u003cstrong>What happens if I test positive?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#omicron\">Do the tests detect omicron?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing scrubs and a face mask and a plastic protector sticks a nose swab into another person's nose.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merline Jimene administers a COVID-19 test swab to a person at a testing site located in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport amid a surge in omicron variant cases on Dec. 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"types\">\u003c/a>What types of COVID tests are there?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's the rapid, do-it-yourself home test, which involves swabbing your nose and takes about 15 minutes to display a result on a test strip provided in the kit. These cost about $20 for a package of two tests. They're known as antigen tests — antigens are basically the proteins from the virus that the rapid tests can identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the PCR test performed in a lab or clinic. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction, which is a technique for amplifying trace amounts of virus DNA. Depending on how busy your local technicians are, you may have PCR results within a day, or it may take several days. A PCR test usually costs about $150 without insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a third type of test: a blood test that looks for antibodies after you've been sick, and some samples can even be taken from a finger prick at home and sent to a lab. But they are not used to diagnose COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost to diagnose COVID-19 is an eligible medical expense for tax purposes, which means you can use your health flexible spending account (health FSA), health savings account (HSA), health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) or Archer medical savings account (Archer MSA) to\u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-cost-of-home-testing-for-covid-19-is-eligible-medical-expense-reimbursable-under-fsas-hsas\"> pay for or get reimbursed for an at-home COVID test kit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most insurance policies cover PCR and rapid tests administered by health providers. As of Jan. 15, people with private health insurance can get reimbursed by their insurer for the cost of up to eight at-home COVID tests per month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902122/at-home-covid-test-reimbursement-from-blue-shield-to-kaiser-how-to-get-your-health-insurance-to-pay-you-back\">Read more about getting reimbursed for at-home COVID tests through your health insurer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also now can \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order free at-home COVID-19 tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. The White House program, which went live Jan. 18, offers four at-home COVID tests to every household in the United States, to be shipped by USPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tests and shipping are completely free of charge. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order free tests through USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A gloved blue hands held by a nurse in a blue robe hold a small white COVID-19 testing vial and swab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A registered nurse stirs a nasal swab in testing solution after administering a COVID-19 test at Sameday Testing on July 14, 2021, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"difference\">\u003c/a>What's the difference between antigen and PCR tests?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The PCR test is much more accurate at identifying an infection because it can amplify traces of the virus — in other words, even if you have a small amount of virus, it can detect it. So it can tell whether you're infected even a day or so after you develop what appear to be COVID-19 symptoms or a few days after exposure to someone with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The antigen tests don't magnify the amount of virus in the sample you take, so you need a pretty high viral load to test positive. As \u003ca href=\"https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/susan-butler-wu/\">Susan Butler-Wu\u003c/a>, associate professor of clinical pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, puts it: \"It's a test for [determining whether you have] a lot of virus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11900053\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/GettyImages-1237257420-1020x680.jpg\"]So you might test negative on a home test even if you are infected — at the beginning or the end of your illness, for example, when you don't have a lot of virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more urgent question, says Butler-Wu, is: \"Which test can you get?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have symptoms and likely have been exposed to the virus by traveling or socializing, a positive antigen test is probably enough evidence that you have the virus, says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/abraar-karan\">Dr. Abraar Karan\u003c/a>, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for PCR tests, availability depends on the demand in your community. Some testing facilities are slammed, with few appointments available and hours-long waits even if you can snag an appointment. And it can take several days to get results from a PCR test.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"time\">\u003c/a>When should I test?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The answer depends on whether you can get a test — and what you're using it for. A test can be used to tell you whether you have COVID-19 — for instance, if you have symptoms or you've been around someone who tested positive. And they also can be used as an added precaution before socializing (which we'll discuss a couple of questions down).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19, you should self-test. But not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you've been exposed, wait a few days because testing right away could be negative,\" Karan says. After you wait, \"then we'll be able to detect virus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends self-testing either when symptoms develop or, if you aren't showing symptoms, five to seven days after exposure. That would give enough time for the body to develop a viral load that can be detected by a home test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the omicron variant, there have been reports that rapid tests are negative during the first day or two of symptoms. So even if you're showing symptoms, you might want to wait a day or two to take the first test, especially if you have a limited supply of tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1029px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11890072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS46093_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-e1632780302268.jpg\" alt=\"A gloved hand holds up a small, white envelope with pink lettering: a rapid COVID-19 test.\" width=\"1029\" height=\"686\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rapid COVID-19 test held by a health care professional at a Unidos En Salud testing site, a collaboration between UCSF and the Latino Task Force, during a post-holiday COVID-19 outreach event on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"many\">\u003c/a>How many tests should I take?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why test twice? Home tests are most accurate when you use them serially — at least two over the course of a few days. And if you have a limited supply of home tests, you will want to aim for the time when you are most likely to get an accurate result — say, on Day 5 and Day 7 after exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tests absolutely have to be used serially, to be perfectly honest. They don't have the sensitivity to be used one-and-done if they're negative,\" Butler-Wu says. \"By repeating it, you're allowing the virus to potentially grow more to the point, essentially, where now you can detect it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that test is negative, all that's telling you is: At this point in time, you don't have a ton of virus in you,\" Karan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"before\">\u003c/a>Should I get tested before seeing people?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to visit Grandma or something, yeah, I would probably rapid-test before that,\" Karan says. \"Or if I'm going somewhere where there's going be a lot of people. If I'm contagious that day [and don't know it], I could infect tons of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A positive test result will tell you to cancel your plans and stay home and isolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But negative results don't mean it's time to rip the mask off in social settings. Rapid tests could be negative before a party and positive during it, just a few hours later — even if you're vaccinated and boosted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To say that the negative test means being indoors unmasked — I think that needs to get rethought, pronto,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Omicron has changed the game completely,\" she says. \"We know from Christmas soirees that occurred in European places that those exact scenarios happened: vaccinated people, negative tests and there was still spread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11900757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people are shown. One is wearing medical scrubs and a face mask, as they perform a COVID-19, the other is a person who ahs taken their mask off to receive the test in their nose.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health care worker tests a patient for COVID-19 at a testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"accurate\">\u003c/a>If I test negative, how accurate is that result?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There can be false negatives, especially soon after exposure when not much virus is present in your body, or if the virus is replicating somewhere other than where you were swabbed — for instance, in your throat instead of your nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that doesn't mean you should use an at-home test to swab in other places that aren't your nose. A recent viral \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@angelapharmd/video/7049615931995147566\">TikTok video encourages viewers to swab their throats instead\u003c/a>, but emergency physician \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.ucsf.edu/people/mary-mercer-md\">Mary Mercer\u003c/a> says that is not necessary. She's part of the COVID-19 task force with the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to follow the directions for whichever at-home test you have,\" she says. \"You do not need to swab your throat in addition to your nose if it's a nasal test.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you tested negative and feel the result isn't accurate, it may be a good idea to test again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890031\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52992_GettyImages-1237563534-qut.jpg\"]According to a pre-omicron study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e3.htm\">the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen test was 92.6% accurate at detecting the virus in symptomatic people\u003c/a> and 78.6% accurate in asymptomatic people, compared to PCR results in cases where people had viable virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also possible to have a false negative from a PCR test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any test is a snapshot of what's happening in the part of your body that was sampled at that moment. That's all it tells you,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PCR tests are more sensitive and can detect lower amounts of the virus in the body, she says. However, if you were just exposed and are in the very early stages of incubation, you probably haven't reached what doctors call the \"limit of detection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/diagnostic-testing.html\">the CDC recommends that people get tested at least five days after a possible exposure, or when they start noticing symptoms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"positive\">\u003c/a>What happens if I test positive?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you test positive, you should isolate yourself for a minimum of five days and wear a mask for five days after that, according to the CDC. If you have rapid tests, you can use them after five days to see whether you're still positive, which would mean you need to continue isolating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you tested at a clinic, they will report the results to the local public health department for you. But if you test positive on a home test, you're not required to report that to the department of public health, says Mercer, the emergency physician from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More COVID-19 Coverage' tag='omicron']\"We do recommend that if you have a positive test, you call your provider, your personal physician or provider to let them know that you're positive,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're worried that you have a false positive, those are pretty rare on PCR tests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063483612/at-home-covid-19-tests-have-room-for-improvement\">usually happen because of contaminated samples, research has found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-providers/potential-false-positive-results-antigen-tests-rapid-detection-sars-cov-2-letter-clinical-laboratory\">false positive on an antigen test is possible but fairly unlikely\u003c/a> if the test is taken correctly, says Butler-Wu, especially if you develop symptoms and you know you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19. And a lot of people are being exposed at this current time of great spread to the omicron and delta variants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \"there's a bunch of COVID and I'm symptomatic, it's probably a true positive,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"omicron\">\u003c/a>Do the tests detect omicron?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rapid tests \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests#omicronvariantimpact\">may not be as accurate for omicron\u003c/a>, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in late December — but they haven't released data yet on why they are less accurate and to what degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also has warned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests\">three types of PCR tests may not detect omicron\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these issues, if you're testing at home after symptoms or an exposure to someone with COVID-19, the use of two tests spaced a few days apart is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Kevin Stark, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí and Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What is the best COVID-19 test? When should I get tested? How many tests should I take? Do tests detect omicron? KQED has the latest information on coronavirus testing during the omicron surge. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1642721871,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2273},"headData":{"title":"COVID Tests: From Rapid Home Tests to PCRs, Here's What to Know Right Now | KQED","description":"What is the best COVID-19 test? When should I get tested? How many tests should I take? Do tests detect omicron? KQED has the latest information on coronavirus testing during the omicron surge. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"COVID Tests: From Rapid Home Tests to PCRs, Here's What to Know Right Now","datePublished":"2022-01-07T20:15:43.000Z","dateModified":"2022-01-20T23:37:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11901008 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11901008","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/07/covid-tests-from-rapid-home-tests-to-pcr-heres-what-to-know-right-now/","disqusTitle":"COVID Tests: From Rapid Home Tests to PCRs, Here's What to Know Right Now","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/m_scribe\">Melody Schreiber\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11901008/covid-tests-from-rapid-home-tests-to-pcr-heres-what-to-know-right-now","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, Jan. 19.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an ideal world, the U.S. would be awash in COVID tests. Anyone exposed to the coronavirus could self-test or go to a lab or clinic if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, self-tests are in short supply in many parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11898455","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52826_GettyImages-1227768883-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Test manufacturers are ramping up production, so hopefully — at some point — you won't be seeing those \"no tests available\" signs at your local pharmacy or have to wait a week or more for tests ordered online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900296/cdc-recommends-shorter-covid-isolation-and-quarantine-periods\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its testing guidelines in the wake of the omicron surge\u003c/a> in the U.S. — and public health researchers are critical of some of the recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a lot of confusion, so we've compiled some frequently asked questions about COVID-19 tests. Don't have time to go through the whole guide? Click the links below to skip to a specific section:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#types\">\u003cstrong>What types of COVID tests are there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#difference\">What's the difference between antigen and PCR tests?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#time\">\u003cstrong>When is the right time to get tested?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#many\">How many tests should I take?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#before\">\u003cstrong>Should I get tested before seeing people?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#accurate\">If I test negative, how accurate is that result?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#positive\">\u003cstrong>What happens if I test positive?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#omicron\">Do the tests detect omicron?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11901097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing scrubs and a face mask and a plastic protector sticks a nose swab into another person's nose.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-1360301966-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merline Jimene administers a COVID-19 test swab to a person at a testing site located in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport amid a surge in omicron variant cases on Dec. 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"types\">\u003c/a>What types of COVID tests are there?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's the rapid, do-it-yourself home test, which involves swabbing your nose and takes about 15 minutes to display a result on a test strip provided in the kit. These cost about $20 for a package of two tests. They're known as antigen tests — antigens are basically the proteins from the virus that the rapid tests can identify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the PCR test performed in a lab or clinic. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction, which is a technique for amplifying trace amounts of virus DNA. Depending on how busy your local technicians are, you may have PCR results within a day, or it may take several days. A PCR test usually costs about $150 without insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a third type of test: a blood test that looks for antibodies after you've been sick, and some samples can even be taken from a finger prick at home and sent to a lab. But they are not used to diagnose COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost to diagnose COVID-19 is an eligible medical expense for tax purposes, which means you can use your health flexible spending account (health FSA), health savings account (HSA), health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) or Archer medical savings account (Archer MSA) to\u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-cost-of-home-testing-for-covid-19-is-eligible-medical-expense-reimbursable-under-fsas-hsas\"> pay for or get reimbursed for an at-home COVID test kit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most insurance policies cover PCR and rapid tests administered by health providers. As of Jan. 15, people with private health insurance can get reimbursed by their insurer for the cost of up to eight at-home COVID tests per month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902122/at-home-covid-test-reimbursement-from-blue-shield-to-kaiser-how-to-get-your-health-insurance-to-pay-you-back\">Read more about getting reimbursed for at-home COVID tests through your health insurer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also now can \u003ca href=\"https://www.covidtests.gov/\">order free at-home COVID-19 tests online\u003c/a> from the federal government and the United States Postal Service. The White House program, which went live Jan. 18, offers four at-home COVID tests to every household in the United States, to be shipped by USPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tests and shipping are completely free of charge. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901928/you-can-now-order-free-covid-at-home-tests-via-usps\">Read more about how to order free tests through USPS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899398\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A gloved blue hands held by a nurse in a blue robe hold a small white COVID-19 testing vial and swab.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52942_GettyImages-1328758598-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A registered nurse stirs a nasal swab in testing solution after administering a COVID-19 test at Sameday Testing on July 14, 2021, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"difference\">\u003c/a>What's the difference between antigen and PCR tests?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The PCR test is much more accurate at identifying an infection because it can amplify traces of the virus — in other words, even if you have a small amount of virus, it can detect it. So it can tell whether you're infected even a day or so after you develop what appear to be COVID-19 symptoms or a few days after exposure to someone with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The antigen tests don't magnify the amount of virus in the sample you take, so you need a pretty high viral load to test positive. As \u003ca href=\"https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/susan-butler-wu/\">Susan Butler-Wu\u003c/a>, associate professor of clinical pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, puts it: \"It's a test for [determining whether you have] a lot of virus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11900053","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/GettyImages-1237257420-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So you might test negative on a home test even if you are infected — at the beginning or the end of your illness, for example, when you don't have a lot of virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more urgent question, says Butler-Wu, is: \"Which test can you get?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have symptoms and likely have been exposed to the virus by traveling or socializing, a positive antigen test is probably enough evidence that you have the virus, says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/abraar-karan\">Dr. Abraar Karan\u003c/a>, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for PCR tests, availability depends on the demand in your community. Some testing facilities are slammed, with few appointments available and hours-long waits even if you can snag an appointment. And it can take several days to get results from a PCR test.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"time\">\u003c/a>When should I test?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The answer depends on whether you can get a test — and what you're using it for. A test can be used to tell you whether you have COVID-19 — for instance, if you have symptoms or you've been around someone who tested positive. And they also can be used as an added precaution before socializing (which we'll discuss a couple of questions down).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19, you should self-test. But not right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you've been exposed, wait a few days because testing right away could be negative,\" Karan says. After you wait, \"then we'll be able to detect virus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends self-testing either when symptoms develop or, if you aren't showing symptoms, five to seven days after exposure. That would give enough time for the body to develop a viral load that can be detected by a home test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the omicron variant, there have been reports that rapid tests are negative during the first day or two of symptoms. So even if you're showing symptoms, you might want to wait a day or two to take the first test, especially if you have a limited supply of tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1029px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11890072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS46093_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-e1632780302268.jpg\" alt=\"A gloved hand holds up a small, white envelope with pink lettering: a rapid COVID-19 test.\" width=\"1029\" height=\"686\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rapid COVID-19 test held by a health care professional at a Unidos En Salud testing site, a collaboration between UCSF and the Latino Task Force, during a post-holiday COVID-19 outreach event on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"many\">\u003c/a>How many tests should I take?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At least two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why test twice? Home tests are most accurate when you use them serially — at least two over the course of a few days. And if you have a limited supply of home tests, you will want to aim for the time when you are most likely to get an accurate result — say, on Day 5 and Day 7 after exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tests absolutely have to be used serially, to be perfectly honest. They don't have the sensitivity to be used one-and-done if they're negative,\" Butler-Wu says. \"By repeating it, you're allowing the virus to potentially grow more to the point, essentially, where now you can detect it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that test is negative, all that's telling you is: At this point in time, you don't have a ton of virus in you,\" Karan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"before\">\u003c/a>Should I get tested before seeing people?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to visit Grandma or something, yeah, I would probably rapid-test before that,\" Karan says. \"Or if I'm going somewhere where there's going be a lot of people. If I'm contagious that day [and don't know it], I could infect tons of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A positive test result will tell you to cancel your plans and stay home and isolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But negative results don't mean it's time to rip the mask off in social settings. Rapid tests could be negative before a party and positive during it, just a few hours later — even if you're vaccinated and boosted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To say that the negative test means being indoors unmasked — I think that needs to get rethought, pronto,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Omicron has changed the game completely,\" she says. \"We know from Christmas soirees that occurred in European places that those exact scenarios happened: vaccinated people, negative tests and there was still spread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11900757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people are shown. One is wearing medical scrubs and a face mask, as they perform a COVID-19, the other is a person who ahs taken their mask off to receive the test in their nose.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/RS46111_019_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDTesting_11302020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health care worker tests a patient for COVID-19 at a testing site on 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"accurate\">\u003c/a>If I test negative, how accurate is that result?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There can be false negatives, especially soon after exposure when not much virus is present in your body, or if the virus is replicating somewhere other than where you were swabbed — for instance, in your throat instead of your nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that doesn't mean you should use an at-home test to swab in other places that aren't your nose. A recent viral \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@angelapharmd/video/7049615931995147566\">TikTok video encourages viewers to swab their throats instead\u003c/a>, but emergency physician \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.ucsf.edu/people/mary-mercer-md\">Mary Mercer\u003c/a> says that is not necessary. She's part of the COVID-19 task force with the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to follow the directions for whichever at-home test you have,\" she says. \"You do not need to swab your throat in addition to your nose if it's a nasal test.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you tested negative and feel the result isn't accurate, it may be a good idea to test again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11890031","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52992_GettyImages-1237563534-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to a pre-omicron study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e3.htm\">the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen test was 92.6% accurate at detecting the virus in symptomatic people\u003c/a> and 78.6% accurate in asymptomatic people, compared to PCR results in cases where people had viable virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also possible to have a false negative from a PCR test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any test is a snapshot of what's happening in the part of your body that was sampled at that moment. That's all it tells you,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PCR tests are more sensitive and can detect lower amounts of the virus in the body, she says. However, if you were just exposed and are in the very early stages of incubation, you probably haven't reached what doctors call the \"limit of detection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/diagnostic-testing.html\">the CDC recommends that people get tested at least five days after a possible exposure, or when they start noticing symptoms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"positive\">\u003c/a>What happens if I test positive?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When you test positive, you should isolate yourself for a minimum of five days and wear a mask for five days after that, according to the CDC. If you have rapid tests, you can use them after five days to see whether you're still positive, which would mean you need to continue isolating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you tested at a clinic, they will report the results to the local public health department for you. But if you test positive on a home test, you're not required to report that to the department of public health, says Mercer, the emergency physician from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More COVID-19 Coverage ","tag":"omicron"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We do recommend that if you have a positive test, you call your provider, your personal physician or provider to let them know that you're positive,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're worried that you have a false positive, those are pretty rare on PCR tests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063483612/at-home-covid-19-tests-have-room-for-improvement\">usually happen because of contaminated samples, research has found\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-providers/potential-false-positive-results-antigen-tests-rapid-detection-sars-cov-2-letter-clinical-laboratory\">false positive on an antigen test is possible but fairly unlikely\u003c/a> if the test is taken correctly, says Butler-Wu, especially if you develop symptoms and you know you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19. And a lot of people are being exposed at this current time of great spread to the omicron and delta variants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \"there's a bunch of COVID and I'm symptomatic, it's probably a true positive,\" Butler-Wu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"omicron\">\u003c/a>Do the tests detect omicron?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rapid tests \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests#omicronvariantimpact\">may not be as accurate for omicron\u003c/a>, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in late December — but they haven't released data yet on why they are less accurate and to what degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA also has warned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests\">three types of PCR tests may not detect omicron\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these issues, if you're testing at home after symptoms or an exposure to someone with COVID-19, the use of two tests spaced a few days apart is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Kevin Stark, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí and Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901008/covid-tests-from-rapid-home-tests-to-pcr-heres-what-to-know-right-now","authors":["byline_news_11901008"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27646","news_27989","news_29546","news_29123","news_27504","news_29250","news_29122","news_27626","news_30305","news_30306","news_27660","news_24721"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11901091","label":"news_253"},"news_11899386":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11899386","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11899386","score":null,"sort":[1639691486000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-spent-1-7-billion-on-a-covid-testing-contract-was-it-worth-it","title":"California Spent $1.7 Billion on a COVID Testing Contract. Was It Worth It?","publishDate":1639691486,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A patient sample that wasn’t processed for more than 30 days. A test used without proper validation of its accuracy. Patient results changed without notification. Safety and disinfection procedures called into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are just a few of the myriad problems at the Valencia Branch Laboratory — a public/private COVID-19 testing lab operated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.perkinelmer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PerkinElmer\u003c/a> in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, a city north of Los Angeles — that the California Department of Public Health hired in a no-bid, \u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/Perkinelmer-health-sciences-inc-CDPH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.7 billion annual contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspection report released last month by the health department outlines \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/Pages/VBL-issue-brief.aspx\">major problems\u003c/a> dating back further than a year ago, raising new questions about how the state is spending taxpayer dollars to combat the pandemic. The report shows the lab has routinely underperformed, failing to meet the contract’s goals for turnaround times and numbers of processed tests. But the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/california-covid-testing-valencia-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">auto-renewed the yearlong contract at the end of October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and state health officials say the laboratory has been crucial to expanding the state’s testing capacity for schools and underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s two largest school districts — Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified — aren’t relying on the lab because it was unavailable when they needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters analysis shows each test at the PerkinElmer Valencia lab costs the state more than three times the amount Los Angeles Unified pays a Bay Area start-up, SummerBio, for a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the state has paid more than twice as much to PerkinElmer for 5.5 million tests as LA Unified’s total projected $350 million cost for the entire school year. The school year is less than half complete, but LA Unified already has administered 7.4 million COVID tests while never using the state’s PerkinElmer lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10 months following its October 2020 opening, the lab processed between 1% and 8% of all COVID-19 tests administered in California each week, according to available data archived by CalMatters. During the first week of December, the lab processed roughly 8.5% of California’s tests, according to the most recently available data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PerkinElmer, a global testing diagnostic company, did not respond to a request for comment about the cost of the testing and the reported problems at the lab. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita\"]'CDPH probably should have canceled [the contract] because honestly, there's other vendors out there. They're doing it for a lot less money more efficiently.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health department officials, in an unsigned statement in response to questions, said the PerkinElmer contract was renewed because of the potential for a winter surge and continued need for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the health department’s report, which was released eight months after officials indicated it would be completed, revealed that inspectors from \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/02/Valencia-Branch-Laboratory-Inspection-FAQs-2.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8aff27a15-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8aff27a15-151559768&mc_cid=b8aff27a15&mc_eid=bf2b5333ad\">the state’s Laboratory Field Services threatened sanctions for major deficiencies\u003c/a> just 10 days before the contract was renewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public health department “probably should have canceled [the contract] because honestly, there’s other vendors out there. They’re doing it for a lot less money more efficiently,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Scott Wilk, who represents the area surrounding Valencia, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilk has been the most \u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/content/wilk-halt-auto-renew-no-bid-covid-testing-lab-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken critic\u003c/a> of the contract, repeatedly calling on the Newsom administration and the health department to halt the autorenewal. Wilk said his office is working on a proposal to reform the no-bid contracting powers that the Legislature granted Newsom at the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there have been abuses there,” Wilk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/8144310/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts and advocates say despite the lab’s troubles, it provides critical testing for smaller school districts, rural counties and underserved communities. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/Pages/VBL-issue-brief.aspx\">62% of tests processed at the lab are from communities of color\u003c/a>, with about a third from the state’s most underserved neighborhoods, based on the \u003ca href=\"https://healthyplacesindex.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Healthy Places Index\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Madera County, for instance, the lab allowed the county and its partners to ramp up testing in a speedier time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valencia has been a net positive for Madera County. Residents would have been at a significant disadvantage without the combination of the Valencia lab and state contracts like the one with OptumServe,” said Sara Bosse, Madera County’s public health director.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could the state have gotten a better deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state currently pays PerkinElmer $37.78 per test, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/budget/COVID-19/COVID-19_Allocations/documents/8-27-2020_COVID-19_Direct_Response_Update-Diagnostic_Testing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Finance analysis\u003c/a>, and charges schools $21 and community organizations $55 per test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That compares to $12 per test that LA Unified pays SummerBio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state contract was announced, it was hailed by local governments and health organizations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/press-release/counties-applaud-governor-doubling-testing-capacity-and-reducing-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cost-saving measure\u003c/a>. But as \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/02/08/whistleblower-allegations-california-covid-testing-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whistleblower reports\u003c/a> about lab failings emerged and vendors with more competitive pricing came online, many questioned why the state didn’t try to renegotiate a better price, which is allowed under the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to SummerBio’s pricing for LA Unified, \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/11/20211118_TAT_dashboard.pdf\">the state could have paid approximately $4.6 million less\u003c/a> for testing during the first week of December, the most recent week the lab’s testing numbers are available. (CalMatters calculated that amount by multiplying the number of tests conducted by the state by the rate charged by PerkinElmer versus the rate SummerBio charges LA Unified, and figuring the difference.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Unified tests a dizzying half a million students and employees weekly and has been held up by proponents of testing and critics of the state government as a model for COVID-19 surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Superintendent Austin Beutner, who spearheaded the search for a cost-effective COVID-19 testing company at the time, said the district knew early on routine testing would be critical to bringing students back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said it’s got to be accurate, quick, high-volume and then the fourth piece was the price,” Beutner said. “In most cases, we were looking at north of 100 bucks. You do the math — 100 times half a million each week. That’s a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]The state has paid PerkinElmer about $740 million. In contrast, LA Unified will spend $350 million for the whole school year and tests far more people.[/pullquote] According to district documents, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7220891/LAUSD-Contract-With-COVID-19-Test-Provider.pdf\">22 companies were evaluated\u003c/a> through an expedited bidding process, and SummerBio offered the lowest price by far, between $38 and $166 less than other diagnostics companies, including major players like Curative and Fulgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has paid PerkinElmer about $740 million for testing in the past year. Most of the cost is recouped through federal funds and health insurance payments, according to the state health department. In contrast, LA Unified is projected to spend $350 million for the entire school year, and tests far more people per week than the Valencia lab. The district also will recoup the costs through federal school reopening grants and federal emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cost comparisons from laboratory to laboratory are difficult because a laboratory’s testing arrangements vary due to differences in the scope of their contracts and the set-up of each laboratory,” health officials said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health department did not answer questions about whether other vendors were considered or whether the department has tried to negotiate a lower rate with PerkinElmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SummerBio representatives declined to comment about the Valencia lab but said the company has been in contact with state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner said he notified the governor’s office about LA Unified’s plans as a courtesy, months before the PerkinElmer contract was announced. As the largest district in the state — and second largest in the nation — LA Unified’s contracts are often piggybacked by other districts and government organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The simplest way to put it is, they [state health officials] weren’t particularly responsive or interested,” Beutner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the state laboratory opened in October 2020, LA Unified was well on its way to developing its own internal testing infrastructure. And the state test — which was $55 for schools at the time — was still far more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Too little, too late — or a lifeline for schools?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like LA Unified, San Diego Unified School District began developing its testing plans well before the state’s PerkinElmer lab was a resource. The district tests around 25,000 students per week, which is approximately a quarter of its student population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just speaking from our experience, our district, we have always had to move quickly and establish our strategies because, you know, waiting for the state would just have taken too long,” Board President Richard Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified conducts a limited amount of pooled testing through the state lab at no cost, but the bulk of its testing is done through a private vendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district initially contracted with UC San Diego to offer tests to students and staff at around $40 per test before moving to another vendor, which charges about $60 per test, when the university could no longer handle its testing needs. At the time, there was little guidance from the state for school testing, which caused headaches for school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was charging schools $55, which made the district’s contract with UC San Diego cheaper. Now, although the school district is paying a private vendor much more than the state’s reduced price of $21, Barrera said it’s too late for the district to switch. The district has already built up capacity through a private vendor and established procedures for getting parental consent, notifying them of test results, training staff and contact tracing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last thing we would want to do now that we’re finally able to scale with private vendors would be to then move away and do something with the state and then have the state’s program end,” he said. “Then we’re back to ramping up from scratch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the laboratory is needed to reach communities with few resources. Barrera said for smaller districts, the state support is likely crucial to keeping kids in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most school testing has been funded by the state through federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach Unified has been using the state’s PerkinElmer Valencia lab. But after January, Long Beach administrators say the district will be responsible for paying for testing. At the peak of its efforts, which averaged between 6,000 to 12,000 tests per day, Long Beach officials said other vendors couldn’t handle the volume, although there were some early issues concerning slow results from the state. At the now-reduced cost of $21 for school districts, Long Beach officials said the state laboratory is one of the cheaper testing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of Modesto, in Ceres Unified School District, administrators say they have worked closely with the state’s Valencia lab for molecular PCR testing. Several months ago they had issues with false positives from the laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by the lab that a few tests were positive, but when they retested with another organization they were negative,” said Edith Narayan, the district’s coordinator of student services. There have been no recent issues.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Department of Public Health\"]'There are few companies that control the entirety of the supply chain … PerkinElmer was uniquely able.'[/pullquote] Officials in San Juan Unified School District, northeast of Sacramento, said supply chain shortages played a part in their decision to use the state testing program, which seemed like the most reliable “comprehensive, accessible and affordable” option. They have had one instance of delayed test processing and are generally satisfied with the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health department officials said in their statement that control of the supply chain was one of the reasons PerkinElmer was awarded the contract. “There are very few companies that control the entirety of the supply chain meaning that they not only build their own laboratory machines, they also produce all the necessary reagents and testing kits … PerkinElmer was uniquely able to address this particular testing constraint,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like smaller school districts, some rural counties have relied heavily on the PerkinElmer lab. In Tulare County, at least 23 public testing locations — both community sites and schools — send COVID testing samples to the state lab. In addition, local pharmacies and clinics contract with the state on their own, according to Tulare County Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/06/california-counties-health-funds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 public health labs have closed\u003c/a>, leaving the state with the same number of laboratory resources that it had in 1950 despite having more than three times the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to keep funding [the Valencia lab],” said Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Association of California. The issues that came with opening a laboratory in a hurry would have been avoidable if local public health infrastructure had been funded adequately to begin with, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope after the pandemic, our state lawmakers and the people in charge of the budget recognize that we can’t be in this state where we spend a lot of money on immediate solutions that are necessary and then let the infrastructure dwindle until the next emergency,” DeBurgh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lab didn't live up to promised capacity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/10/newsom-pledges-more-covid-19-testing-capacity-with-new-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When the lab opened\u003c/a> in October 2020, it was built with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/10/newsom-pledges-more-covid-19-testing-capacity-with-new-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promise to process 150,000 tests per day\u003c/a>, doubling the state’s capacity at a time when local public health departments, commercial labs and health systems were straining to keep up. However, commercial labs and health systems have simultaneously ramped up capacity and accounted for the bulk of testing throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab processes a daily average of 40,000 tests, according to state health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the PerkinElmer Valencia lab has routinely processed far fewer results than its commercial counterparts, at times less than 4% of the state’s total tests during the summer of 2021, according to available data archived by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testing Task Force\u003c/a> posts the number of tests processed online weekly but deletes the previous week’s records, so CalMatters used a web scraper to compile historical data between August 2020 and December 2021, after a public records request to the health department yielded minimal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for testing dropped statewide during the summer, so the lab processed on average 75,000 samples and as few as 28,000 samples per week — a small fraction of the daily capacity of 150,000 tests promised by the Newsom administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8144785/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their anonymous statement, health department officials said the lab has the capacity but has never been asked to ramp up to the maximum. However, in mid-September, the lab had to send overflow samples to another lab even though it hadn’t reached the contract’s 150,000 capacity, according to the health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until schools opened in August that the lab began processing more than 10% of the state’s tests. In contrast, commercial labs have accounted for 60% to 70% of all tests, while medical centers account for roughly 20%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, SummerBio alone has processed a greater proportion of tests than all public health labs combined, reaching nearly 20% in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state’s PerkinElmer lab, aside from capacity concerns, the state’s report from April highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/CDPH%20Document%20Library/VBL/Complaint/State2567%20Complaint%20Investigation%20CDPH%20Branch%20Lab%2004222021%20(002)_Redacted.pdf\">four instances between Nov. 14 and Dec. 1 of last year where groups of test results were “corrected” or “amended,”\u003c/a> but there was no evidence that patients were promptly notified, meaning they may have inaccurately thought they tested positive or negative. Inspectors also reported that when the lab lost tests, instead of reporting them as lost, it labeled the samples “unsatisfactory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials said the problems found in the inspection reports have since been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeBurgh, the director of the Health Officers Association, said the state has a responsibility to ensure testing is available to everyone regardless of cost or insurance status. Because commercial labs won’t be around forever, the state needs the Valencia lab for long-term public health beyond the pandemic, she said. “Right now, it’s profitable to give COVID-19 tests. That’s not going to be true forever. And yet we are still going to need the tests,” she said. [aside tag=\"covid, testing\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Elaine Howle, who is stepping down this month after leading the State Auditor office for 21 years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-state-auditor-exit-interview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a November CalMatters interview\u003c/a> that auto-renewal of contracts like the PerkinElmer one “may be something that’s particularly concerning, particularly if, as you say, there were some reporting requirements and those weren’t met.” Her office has reviewed use of federal money but has not reviewed no-bid contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m aware that there are no-bid contracts out there,” she said. “I wasn’t aware of a contract that size that auto-renewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento-based public contract lawyer Jennifer Dauer said it’s not uncommon for government’s competitive bidding requirements to be suspended or autorenewal of contracts to occur during emergencies like the pandemic or wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there tends to be little oversight once a contract is signed, particularly during states of emergency. The courts tend to side with public entities, leaving the public to serve as the watchdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is extreme deference to what public entities who are dealing with emergencies do in their contracting,” said Dauer, who has worked with companies pursuing local, state and federal contracts. “The traffic cop is the public, and it’s an uphill battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilk said as the pandemic evolved, and once issues at the laboratory became apparent, the state should have, at minimum, renegotiated the contract rather than renew it on the same terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renegotiate and get a better deal for the taxpayers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Valencia lab, a public/private venture between the state and PerkinElmer, processed only 1% to 8% of all of California's COVID tests in the first 10 months of the contract. And the lab was riddled with dozens of problems, according to an inspection report.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1639702519,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/8144310/embed","https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8144785/embed"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":69,"wordCount":3071},"headData":{"title":"California Spent $1.7 Billion on a COVID Testing Contract. Was It Worth It? | KQED","description":"The Valencia lab, a public/private venture between the state and PerkinElmer, processed only 1% to 8% of all of California's COVID tests in the first 10 months of the contract. And the lab was riddled with dozens of problems, according to an inspection report.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Spent $1.7 Billion on a COVID Testing Contract. Was It Worth It?","datePublished":"2021-12-16T21:51:26.000Z","dateModified":"2021-12-17T00:55:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11899386 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11899386","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/12/16/california-spent-1-7-billion-on-a-covid-testing-contract-was-it-worth-it/","disqusTitle":"California Spent $1.7 Billion on a COVID Testing Contract. Was It Worth It?","source":"Calmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11899386/california-spent-1-7-billion-on-a-covid-testing-contract-was-it-worth-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A patient sample that wasn’t processed for more than 30 days. A test used without proper validation of its accuracy. Patient results changed without notification. Safety and disinfection procedures called into question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are just a few of the myriad problems at the Valencia Branch Laboratory — a public/private COVID-19 testing lab operated by \u003ca href=\"https://www.perkinelmer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PerkinElmer\u003c/a> in the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, a city north of Los Angeles — that the California Department of Public Health hired in a no-bid, \u003ca href=\"https://files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/Perkinelmer-health-sciences-inc-CDPH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.7 billion annual contract\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspection report released last month by the health department outlines \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/Pages/VBL-issue-brief.aspx\">major problems\u003c/a> dating back further than a year ago, raising new questions about how the state is spending taxpayer dollars to combat the pandemic. The report shows the lab has routinely underperformed, failing to meet the contract’s goals for turnaround times and numbers of processed tests. But the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/california-covid-testing-valencia-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">auto-renewed the yearlong contract at the end of October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and state health officials say the laboratory has been crucial to expanding the state’s testing capacity for schools and underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California’s two largest school districts — Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified — aren’t relying on the lab because it was unavailable when they needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters analysis shows each test at the PerkinElmer Valencia lab costs the state more than three times the amount Los Angeles Unified pays a Bay Area start-up, SummerBio, for a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, the state has paid more than twice as much to PerkinElmer for 5.5 million tests as LA Unified’s total projected $350 million cost for the entire school year. The school year is less than half complete, but LA Unified already has administered 7.4 million COVID tests while never using the state’s PerkinElmer lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 10 months following its October 2020 opening, the lab processed between 1% and 8% of all COVID-19 tests administered in California each week, according to available data archived by CalMatters. During the first week of December, the lab processed roughly 8.5% of California’s tests, according to the most recently available data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PerkinElmer, a global testing diagnostic company, did not respond to a request for comment about the cost of the testing and the reported problems at the lab. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'CDPH probably should have canceled [the contract] because honestly, there's other vendors out there. They're doing it for a lot less money more efficiently.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"State Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health department officials, in an unsigned statement in response to questions, said the PerkinElmer contract was renewed because of the potential for a winter surge and continued need for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the health department’s report, which was released eight months after officials indicated it would be completed, revealed that inspectors from \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/02/Valencia-Branch-Laboratory-Inspection-FAQs-2.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=b8aff27a15-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-b8aff27a15-151559768&mc_cid=b8aff27a15&mc_eid=bf2b5333ad\">the state’s Laboratory Field Services threatened sanctions for major deficiencies\u003c/a> just 10 days before the contract was renewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state public health department “probably should have canceled [the contract] because honestly, there’s other vendors out there. They’re doing it for a lot less money more efficiently,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Scott Wilk, who represents the area surrounding Valencia, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilk has been the most \u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/content/wilk-halt-auto-renew-no-bid-covid-testing-lab-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken critic\u003c/a> of the contract, repeatedly calling on the Newsom administration and the health department to halt the autorenewal. Wilk said his office is working on a proposal to reform the no-bid contracting powers that the Legislature granted Newsom at the beginning of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there have been abuses there,” Wilk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/8144310/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts and advocates say despite the lab’s troubles, it provides critical testing for smaller school districts, rural counties and underserved communities. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/Pages/VBL-issue-brief.aspx\">62% of tests processed at the lab are from communities of color\u003c/a>, with about a third from the state’s most underserved neighborhoods, based on the \u003ca href=\"https://healthyplacesindex.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Healthy Places Index\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Madera County, for instance, the lab allowed the county and its partners to ramp up testing in a speedier time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valencia has been a net positive for Madera County. Residents would have been at a significant disadvantage without the combination of the Valencia lab and state contracts like the one with OptumServe,” said Sara Bosse, Madera County’s public health director.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could the state have gotten a better deal?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The state currently pays PerkinElmer $37.78 per test, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/budget/COVID-19/COVID-19_Allocations/documents/8-27-2020_COVID-19_Direct_Response_Update-Diagnostic_Testing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Finance analysis\u003c/a>, and charges schools $21 and community organizations $55 per test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That compares to $12 per test that LA Unified pays SummerBio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the state contract was announced, it was hailed by local governments and health organizations as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/press-release/counties-applaud-governor-doubling-testing-capacity-and-reducing-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cost-saving measure\u003c/a>. But as \u003ca href=\"https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/02/08/whistleblower-allegations-california-covid-testing-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whistleblower reports\u003c/a> about lab failings emerged and vendors with more competitive pricing came online, many questioned why the state didn’t try to renegotiate a better price, which is allowed under the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to SummerBio’s pricing for LA Unified, \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/332/2021/11/20211118_TAT_dashboard.pdf\">the state could have paid approximately $4.6 million less\u003c/a> for testing during the first week of December, the most recent week the lab’s testing numbers are available. (CalMatters calculated that amount by multiplying the number of tests conducted by the state by the rate charged by PerkinElmer versus the rate SummerBio charges LA Unified, and figuring the difference.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA Unified tests a dizzying half a million students and employees weekly and has been held up by proponents of testing and critics of the state government as a model for COVID-19 surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Superintendent Austin Beutner, who spearheaded the search for a cost-effective COVID-19 testing company at the time, said the district knew early on routine testing would be critical to bringing students back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said it’s got to be accurate, quick, high-volume and then the fourth piece was the price,” Beutner said. “In most cases, we were looking at north of 100 bucks. You do the math — 100 times half a million each week. That’s a lot of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"The state has paid PerkinElmer about $740 million. In contrast, LA Unified will spend $350 million for the whole school year and tests far more people.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> According to district documents, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7220891/LAUSD-Contract-With-COVID-19-Test-Provider.pdf\">22 companies were evaluated\u003c/a> through an expedited bidding process, and SummerBio offered the lowest price by far, between $38 and $166 less than other diagnostics companies, including major players like Curative and Fulgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has paid PerkinElmer about $740 million for testing in the past year. Most of the cost is recouped through federal funds and health insurance payments, according to the state health department. In contrast, LA Unified is projected to spend $350 million for the entire school year, and tests far more people per week than the Valencia lab. The district also will recoup the costs through federal school reopening grants and federal emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cost comparisons from laboratory to laboratory are difficult because a laboratory’s testing arrangements vary due to differences in the scope of their contracts and the set-up of each laboratory,” health officials said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health department did not answer questions about whether other vendors were considered or whether the department has tried to negotiate a lower rate with PerkinElmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SummerBio representatives declined to comment about the Valencia lab but said the company has been in contact with state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beutner said he notified the governor’s office about LA Unified’s plans as a courtesy, months before the PerkinElmer contract was announced. As the largest district in the state — and second largest in the nation — LA Unified’s contracts are often piggybacked by other districts and government organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The simplest way to put it is, they [state health officials] weren’t particularly responsive or interested,” Beutner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the state laboratory opened in October 2020, LA Unified was well on its way to developing its own internal testing infrastructure. And the state test — which was $55 for schools at the time — was still far more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Too little, too late — or a lifeline for schools?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like LA Unified, San Diego Unified School District began developing its testing plans well before the state’s PerkinElmer lab was a resource. The district tests around 25,000 students per week, which is approximately a quarter of its student population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just speaking from our experience, our district, we have always had to move quickly and establish our strategies because, you know, waiting for the state would just have taken too long,” Board President Richard Barrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Unified conducts a limited amount of pooled testing through the state lab at no cost, but the bulk of its testing is done through a private vendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district initially contracted with UC San Diego to offer tests to students and staff at around $40 per test before moving to another vendor, which charges about $60 per test, when the university could no longer handle its testing needs. At the time, there was little guidance from the state for school testing, which caused headaches for school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was charging schools $55, which made the district’s contract with UC San Diego cheaper. Now, although the school district is paying a private vendor much more than the state’s reduced price of $21, Barrera said it’s too late for the district to switch. The district has already built up capacity through a private vendor and established procedures for getting parental consent, notifying them of test results, training staff and contact tracing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last thing we would want to do now that we’re finally able to scale with private vendors would be to then move away and do something with the state and then have the state’s program end,” he said. “Then we’re back to ramping up from scratch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the laboratory is needed to reach communities with few resources. Barrera said for smaller districts, the state support is likely crucial to keeping kids in classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most school testing has been funded by the state through federal grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long Beach Unified has been using the state’s PerkinElmer Valencia lab. But after January, Long Beach administrators say the district will be responsible for paying for testing. At the peak of its efforts, which averaged between 6,000 to 12,000 tests per day, Long Beach officials said other vendors couldn’t handle the volume, although there were some early issues concerning slow results from the state. At the now-reduced cost of $21 for school districts, Long Beach officials said the state laboratory is one of the cheaper testing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of Modesto, in Ceres Unified School District, administrators say they have worked closely with the state’s Valencia lab for molecular PCR testing. Several months ago they had issues with false positives from the laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by the lab that a few tests were positive, but when they retested with another organization they were negative,” said Edith Narayan, the district’s coordinator of student services. There have been no recent issues.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There are few companies that control the entirety of the supply chain … PerkinElmer was uniquely able.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"California Department of Public Health","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Officials in San Juan Unified School District, northeast of Sacramento, said supply chain shortages played a part in their decision to use the state testing program, which seemed like the most reliable “comprehensive, accessible and affordable” option. They have had one instance of delayed test processing and are generally satisfied with the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health department officials said in their statement that control of the supply chain was one of the reasons PerkinElmer was awarded the contract. “There are very few companies that control the entirety of the supply chain meaning that they not only build their own laboratory machines, they also produce all the necessary reagents and testing kits … PerkinElmer was uniquely able to address this particular testing constraint,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like smaller school districts, some rural counties have relied heavily on the PerkinElmer lab. In Tulare County, at least 23 public testing locations — both community sites and schools — send COVID testing samples to the state lab. In addition, local pharmacies and clinics contract with the state on their own, according to Tulare County Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past two decades, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/06/california-counties-health-funds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 public health labs have closed\u003c/a>, leaving the state with the same number of laboratory resources that it had in 1950 despite having more than three times the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to keep funding [the Valencia lab],” said Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the Health Officers Association of California. The issues that came with opening a laboratory in a hurry would have been avoidable if local public health infrastructure had been funded adequately to begin with, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope after the pandemic, our state lawmakers and the people in charge of the budget recognize that we can’t be in this state where we spend a lot of money on immediate solutions that are necessary and then let the infrastructure dwindle until the next emergency,” DeBurgh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lab didn't live up to promised capacity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/10/newsom-pledges-more-covid-19-testing-capacity-with-new-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When the lab opened\u003c/a> in October 2020, it was built with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/10/newsom-pledges-more-covid-19-testing-capacity-with-new-lab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promise to process 150,000 tests per day\u003c/a>, doubling the state’s capacity at a time when local public health departments, commercial labs and health systems were straining to keep up. However, commercial labs and health systems have simultaneously ramped up capacity and accounted for the bulk of testing throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab processes a daily average of 40,000 tests, according to state health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the PerkinElmer Valencia lab has routinely processed far fewer results than its commercial counterparts, at times less than 4% of the state’s total tests during the summer of 2021, according to available data archived by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://testing.covid19.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Testing Task Force\u003c/a> posts the number of tests processed online weekly but deletes the previous week’s records, so CalMatters used a web scraper to compile historical data between August 2020 and December 2021, after a public records request to the health department yielded minimal documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for testing dropped statewide during the summer, so the lab processed on average 75,000 samples and as few as 28,000 samples per week — a small fraction of the daily capacity of 150,000 tests promised by the Newsom administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8144785/embed?auto=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their anonymous statement, health department officials said the lab has the capacity but has never been asked to ramp up to the maximum. However, in mid-September, the lab had to send overflow samples to another lab even though it hadn’t reached the contract’s 150,000 capacity, according to the health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until schools opened in August that the lab began processing more than 10% of the state’s tests. In contrast, commercial labs have accounted for 60% to 70% of all tests, while medical centers account for roughly 20%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, SummerBio alone has processed a greater proportion of tests than all public health labs combined, reaching nearly 20% in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state’s PerkinElmer lab, aside from capacity concerns, the state’s report from April highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OSPHLD/LFS/CDPH%20Document%20Library/VBL/Complaint/State2567%20Complaint%20Investigation%20CDPH%20Branch%20Lab%2004222021%20(002)_Redacted.pdf\">four instances between Nov. 14 and Dec. 1 of last year where groups of test results were “corrected” or “amended,”\u003c/a> but there was no evidence that patients were promptly notified, meaning they may have inaccurately thought they tested positive or negative. Inspectors also reported that when the lab lost tests, instead of reporting them as lost, it labeled the samples “unsatisfactory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials said the problems found in the inspection reports have since been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeBurgh, the director of the Health Officers Association, said the state has a responsibility to ensure testing is available to everyone regardless of cost or insurance status. Because commercial labs won’t be around forever, the state needs the Valencia lab for long-term public health beyond the pandemic, she said. “Right now, it’s profitable to give COVID-19 tests. That’s not going to be true forever. And yet we are still going to need the tests,” she said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"covid, testing","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Elaine Howle, who is stepping down this month after leading the State Auditor office for 21 years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/11/california-state-auditor-exit-interview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a November CalMatters interview\u003c/a> that auto-renewal of contracts like the PerkinElmer one “may be something that’s particularly concerning, particularly if, as you say, there were some reporting requirements and those weren’t met.” Her office has reviewed use of federal money but has not reviewed no-bid contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m aware that there are no-bid contracts out there,” she said. “I wasn’t aware of a contract that size that auto-renewed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento-based public contract lawyer Jennifer Dauer said it’s not uncommon for government’s competitive bidding requirements to be suspended or autorenewal of contracts to occur during emergencies like the pandemic or wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there tends to be little oversight once a contract is signed, particularly during states of emergency. The courts tend to side with public entities, leaving the public to serve as the watchdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is extreme deference to what public entities who are dealing with emergencies do in their contracting,” said Dauer, who has worked with companies pursuing local, state and federal contracts. “The traffic cop is the public, and it’s an uphill battle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilk said as the pandemic evolved, and once issues at the laboratory became apparent, the state should have, at minimum, renegotiated the contract rather than renew it on the same terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renegotiate and get a better deal for the taxpayers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11899386/california-spent-1-7-billion-on-a-covid-testing-contract-was-it-worth-it","authors":["byline_news_11899386"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_22772","news_27504","news_24721"],"featImg":"news_11899398","label":"source_news_11899386"},"news_11830944":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11830944","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11830944","score":null,"sort":[1596027931000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-withholds-virus-money-from-2-cities-in-merced-and-fresno-county","title":"State Withholds Virus Money From 2 Cities That Defied Health Orders","publishDate":1596027931,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is using new powers to withhold money from two cities in the Central Valley that are defying his health orders by allowing all businesses to open during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom blocked nearly $65,000 from Atwater in Merced County and more than $35,000 from Coalinga in Fresno County, the first installments of $2.5 billion in federal funds that cities and counties across the state risk losing if they don’t toe the line on coronavirus safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Office of Emergency Services sent letters to the cities last week notifying officials that they risked losing more money if they didn’t withdraw resolutions defying the state’s orders. The city councils in both cities met Monday and stuck with their resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose our path and we prepared for it,” Atwater Mayor Paul Creighton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creighton said the governor is abandoning the small city even as he devotes more resources and federal money to combat a virus surge in the Central Valley. Creighton said sentiment in his city of 29,000 seems to be running about 80-20 in defiance of the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was granted the power to block the money in the new state budget that took effect earlier this month. The cities lost the first one-sixth of their money but can get the rest if they rescind their resolutions, Office of Emergency Services spokesman Brian Ferguson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwater is eligible for $389,000 and Coalinga for $216,000 in assistance through the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would spend $52 million in the Central Valley to improve virus testing and provide other help to residents in the region. The state is also sending strike teams of health care workers to help hospitals handle the additional cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday the rate of hospitalizations statewide is slowing and in some parts even flattening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see that in the Central Valley,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merced County on Monday reported its highest-ever number of virus hospitalizations, while Fresno County is just below its highest level. Health officials in the two counties did not respond to telephone and email requests for comment on the cities’ defiance.[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virus cases in California started surging in early June, and in early July Newsom reimposed shutdown orders on many businesses while also barring indoor religious services and in-school instruction for students in most of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwater’s City Council made it clear it won’t enforce the state’s public health order and Coalinga’s City Council approved a resolution calling all businesses “essential” and thus able to remain open despite the state’s shutdown orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money from the state fund would have gone to help local businesses hard hit during the pandemic, to buy more personal protective equipment, and to more education and outreach, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we need that money to do, we’re not going to be able to do now,” Creighton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials would like to sue the state, he said, but can’t afford to fight that battle.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the new state budget that took effect earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom was granted the power to block federal funds from going to municipalities that defy health orders.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596064788,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":555},"headData":{"title":"State Withholds Virus Money From 2 Cities That Defied Health Orders | KQED","description":"In the new state budget that took effect earlier this month, Gov. 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Gavin Newsom is using new powers to withhold money from two cities in the Central Valley that are defying his health orders by allowing all businesses to open during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom blocked nearly $65,000 from Atwater in Merced County and more than $35,000 from Coalinga in Fresno County, the first installments of $2.5 billion in federal funds that cities and counties across the state risk losing if they don’t toe the line on coronavirus safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Office of Emergency Services sent letters to the cities last week notifying officials that they risked losing more money if they didn’t withdraw resolutions defying the state’s orders. The city councils in both cities met Monday and stuck with their resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We chose our path and we prepared for it,” Atwater Mayor Paul Creighton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creighton said the governor is abandoning the small city even as he devotes more resources and federal money to combat a virus surge in the Central Valley. Creighton said sentiment in his city of 29,000 seems to be running about 80-20 in defiance of the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was granted the power to block the money in the new state budget that took effect earlier this month. The cities lost the first one-sixth of their money but can get the rest if they rescind their resolutions, Office of Emergency Services spokesman Brian Ferguson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwater is eligible for $389,000 and Coalinga for $216,000 in assistance through the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Newsom announced he would spend $52 million in the Central Valley to improve virus testing and provide other help to residents in the region. The state is also sending strike teams of health care workers to help hospitals handle the additional cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday the rate of hospitalizations statewide is slowing and in some parts even flattening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see that in the Central Valley,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merced County on Monday reported its highest-ever number of virus hospitalizations, while Fresno County is just below its highest level. Health officials in the two counties did not respond to telephone and email requests for comment on the cities’ defiance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"coronavirus","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virus cases in California started surging in early June, and in early July Newsom reimposed shutdown orders on many businesses while also barring indoor religious services and in-school instruction for students in most of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwater’s City Council made it clear it won’t enforce the state’s public health order and Coalinga’s City Council approved a resolution calling all businesses “essential” and thus able to remain open despite the state’s shutdown orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money from the state fund would have gone to help local businesses hard hit during the pandemic, to buy more personal protective equipment, and to more education and outreach, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we need that money to do, we’re not going to be able to do now,” Creighton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials would like to sue the state, he said, but can’t afford to fight that battle.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11830944/state-withholds-virus-money-from-2-cities-in-merced-and-fresno-county","authors":["byline_news_11830944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_311","news_27350","news_27504","news_16","news_24721"],"featImg":"news_11830964","label":"source_news_11830944"},"news_11820134":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11820134","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11820134","score":null,"sort":[1590115763000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"university-of-california-system-to-drop-sat-act-test-requirements","title":"University of California System to Drop SAT, ACT Test Requirements","publishDate":1590115763,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s governing body, the Board of Regents, voted 23-0 Thursday to approve a proposal by UC President Janet Napolitano that phases the tests out over five years, at which point the UC aims to have developed its own test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents met in a teleconference that lasted several hours Thursday, with expert presentations and lengthy debates that echoed a national conversation about whether the tests discriminate against disadvantaged students or help admissions offices find the most qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an incredible step in the right direction,” Regents Chairman John Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the tests have long argued they put minority and low-income students at a disadvantage because the test questions often contain inherent bias that more privileged children are better equipped to answer. Wealthier students also tend to take expensive prep courses that help boost their scores, which many students can’t afford, critics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California high school campuses closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the UC had already made the tests optional for students who want to attend the fall 2021 sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan approved Thursday, SAT and ACT tests will be optional for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years for all applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UofCalifornia/status/1263605511242514435?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2023 and continuing the following year, the admissions process will be “test blind” for California residents, meaning SAT and ACT scores won’t be used in admissions decisions but could still be considered for purposes such as course placement and scholarships. Napolitano asked the school’s academic senate to work with the administration on a plan for out-of-state and international students applying as of fall 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2025, the 290,000-student UC system will either replace the SAT and ACT with its own admissions test, or if it’s unable to create its own exam, will eliminate its standardized testing requirement altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napolitano’s office said in a statement that assessing nonresident students “presents challenges in terms of fairness and practicality,” but the options include extending the new tests for California students to out-of-state applicants or using some other standardized tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by the massive UC system could be influential as other colleges nationwide eye similar decisions. UC officials said they would begin working on the new test this summer.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The UC’s governing body, the Board of Regents, voted 23-0 Thursday to approve a proposal by UC President Janet Napolitano that phases the tests out over five years, at which point the UC aims to have developed its own test.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590169852,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":436},"headData":{"title":"University of California System to Drop SAT, ACT Test Requirements | KQED","description":"The UC’s governing body, the Board of Regents, voted 23-0 Thursday to approve a proposal by UC President Janet Napolitano that phases the tests out over five years, at which point the UC aims to have developed its own test.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"University of California System to Drop SAT, ACT Test Requirements","datePublished":"2020-05-22T02:49:23.000Z","dateModified":"2020-05-22T17:50:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11820134 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11820134","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/21/university-of-california-system-to-drop-sat-act-test-requirements/","disqusTitle":"University of California System to Drop SAT, ACT Test Requirements","source":"Coronavirus","nprByline":"Associated Press","path":"/news/11820134/university-of-california-system-to-drop-sat-act-test-requirements","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s governing body, the Board of Regents, voted 23-0 Thursday to approve a proposal by UC President Janet Napolitano that phases the tests out over five years, at which point the UC aims to have developed its own test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents met in a teleconference that lasted several hours Thursday, with expert presentations and lengthy debates that echoed a national conversation about whether the tests discriminate against disadvantaged students or help admissions offices find the most qualified applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is an incredible step in the right direction,” Regents Chairman John Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the tests have long argued they put minority and low-income students at a disadvantage because the test questions often contain inherent bias that more privileged children are better equipped to answer. Wealthier students also tend to take expensive prep courses that help boost their scores, which many students can’t afford, critics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California high school campuses closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the UC had already made the tests optional for students who want to attend the fall 2021 sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan approved Thursday, SAT and ACT tests will be optional for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years for all applicants.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1263605511242514435"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2023 and continuing the following year, the admissions process will be “test blind” for California residents, meaning SAT and ACT scores won’t be used in admissions decisions but could still be considered for purposes such as course placement and scholarships. 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Way more tired than was normal, her doctors decided. They ordered tests and an ultrasound and discovered Jimenez had been born with only one kidney – and that one kidney was failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez was 20. She managed her health with pills and diet for the next nine years and through two more pregnancies until her doctor noticed the tired look in her eyes again. He ordered her to begin dialysis and to sign up for the waiting list for a kidney transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was strange and scary, Jimenez said, waiting for someone to die so she could live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sitting in your mind, it just can never leave you alone,” she said. “You're just thinking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. California officials ordered everyone to stay at home, except to get fresh air and go to medical appointments. On day two, in March, Jimenez got in her car in San Pablo, waved goodbye to her 3-year-old son and drove to her regular Wednesday dialysis appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads were deserted. No traffic. That meant no car accidents, she thought. She was afraid to admit what she thought next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Nobody's going to die,’ ” she said. “I'm not going to get my transplant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accident deaths are the biggest source of organ donations, accounting for 33% of donations in 2019, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, \u003ca href=\"https://unos.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNOS\u003c/a>, which manages the nation’s organ transplant system under contract with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11814635,news_11813006,news_11812402\" label=\"More Health Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents have declined. Traffic collisions and fatalities in the state dropped by half in the first three weeks of sheltering in place, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_415.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from UC Davis\u003c/a>. Drowning deaths dropped 80% in California, according to data compiled by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopdrowningnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop Drowning Now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, in April, organ procurement organizations see a surge in donations related to outdoor, spring break-related activities and travel. But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spring break accidents are almost nonexistent because there’s no spring break,” said Janice Whaley, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.donornetworkwest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donor Network West\u003c/a>, which manages organ donations for Northern California and Nevada. “Beach accidents, motorcycle accidents, hunting accidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is on top of a range of other complications that have made transplants difficult during the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals have had to scale back surgeries of all kinds to preserve scarce supplies of personal protective equipment and ventilators, and many just haven’t had the bandwidth to manage the delicate timing and complexity of organ donation, recovery, transport and transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, transplant surgeries across the country plummeted 52% last month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://unos.org/covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNOS data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of things that have to happen perfectly, and now we're in an imperfect situation where we're trying to deal with so many other things,” Whaley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Donor-Network-West-Team-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janice Whaley (seated) is the CEO of Donor Network West, which manages organ donations from deceased donors in Northern California and Nevada. Her call center operations team answers phone calls from hospitals about potential organ donors. \u003ccite>(Andye Daley/Donor Network West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, for organs to be viable for donation, people have to die or be declared brain dead while on a ventilator, so blood keeps flowing to the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys. Sometimes those people need to stay on the ventilator for two or three days while transplant teams and recipients are lined up, and then the recipients need to be on a ventilator for surgery, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were very antsy about having non-COVID-19 patients on ventilators, taking up space, where they wanted to make sure they were ready for that next patient,” Whaley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many COVID-19 patients who died offered their organs for donation, but those were all declined out of the concern that recipients could become infected, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also issues with doing proper testing of donors who did not die from COVID-19, as hospitals did not have enough testing supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there may have been some organ turndowns that we normally wouldn't have seen,” said Dr. Chris Freise, an abdominal transplant surgeon at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a matter of policy, hospitals canceled virtually all organ transplants from living donors, where a spouse or other family member donates a kidney or section of their liver to a loved one in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That involves bringing two patients into the hospital – the donor and the recipient – and we certainly didn't want to put donors at any significant extra risk,” Freise said. “Living donor kidney transplant ground down to almost a complete halt in most programs across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living donations have continued to be postponed, deceased donations started to creep up slowly in mid-April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Jimenez got her call from Freise’s team at UCSF. After three pregnancies, Jimenez’s antibody levels were about as high as they could be, which made finding a match for her very difficult, Freise said, “like a needle in a haystack.” That also put her at the top of the waiting list in case a match was found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez's phone rang at 2 a.m. on April 17, with transplant staff telling her it was time and to get to the hospital right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was excited,” she said. “But then my mind hit me: Somebody died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she knows is that the person was 19 and died in an accident in Los Angeles. Jimenez wrote a letter to the donor’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them that I will forever be thinking of them,” she said. “I will have him or her in my body for the rest of my life, and I will live for both of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez has six months of recovery ahead of her. She says she’s looking forward to going back to work and having more energy to play with her kids.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Accident deaths are the biggest source of organ donations, accounting for 33% of donations in 2019. But since the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents have declined. Traffic collisions and fatalities in the state dropped by half in the first three weeks of sheltering in place.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588277619,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1055},"headData":{"title":"More Hospital Complications and Fewer Traffic Collisions Mean Longer Waits For Organ Donations | KQED","description":"Accident deaths are the biggest source of organ donations, accounting for 33% of donations in 2019. 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Way more tired than was normal, her doctors decided. They ordered tests and an ultrasound and discovered Jimenez had been born with only one kidney – and that one kidney was failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez was 20. She managed her health with pills and diet for the next nine years and through two more pregnancies until her doctor noticed the tired look in her eyes again. He ordered her to begin dialysis and to sign up for the waiting list for a kidney transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was strange and scary, Jimenez said, waiting for someone to die so she could live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sitting in your mind, it just can never leave you alone,” she said. “You're just thinking about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. California officials ordered everyone to stay at home, except to get fresh air and go to medical appointments. On day two, in March, Jimenez got in her car in San Pablo, waved goodbye to her 3-year-old son and drove to her regular Wednesday dialysis appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads were deserted. No traffic. That meant no car accidents, she thought. She was afraid to admit what she thought next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Nobody's going to die,’ ” she said. “I'm not going to get my transplant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accident deaths are the biggest source of organ donations, accounting for 33% of donations in 2019, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, \u003ca href=\"https://unos.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNOS\u003c/a>, which manages the nation’s organ transplant system under contract with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11814635,news_11813006,news_11812402","label":"More Health Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents have declined. Traffic collisions and fatalities in the state dropped by half in the first three weeks of sheltering in place, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/projects/COVID_CHIPs_Impacts_updated_415.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from UC Davis\u003c/a>. Drowning deaths dropped 80% in California, according to data compiled by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopdrowningnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop Drowning Now\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, in April, organ procurement organizations see a surge in donations related to outdoor, spring break-related activities and travel. But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spring break accidents are almost nonexistent because there’s no spring break,” said Janice Whaley, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.donornetworkwest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donor Network West\u003c/a>, which manages organ donations for Northern California and Nevada. “Beach accidents, motorcycle accidents, hunting accidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is on top of a range of other complications that have made transplants difficult during the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals have had to scale back surgeries of all kinds to preserve scarce supplies of personal protective equipment and ventilators, and many just haven’t had the bandwidth to manage the delicate timing and complexity of organ donation, recovery, transport and transplant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, transplant surgeries across the country plummeted 52% last month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://unos.org/covid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNOS data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of things that have to happen perfectly, and now we're in an imperfect situation where we're trying to deal with so many other things,” Whaley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Donor-Network-West-Team-800x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janice Whaley (seated) is the CEO of Donor Network West, which manages organ donations from deceased donors in Northern California and Nevada. Her call center operations team answers phone calls from hospitals about potential organ donors. \u003ccite>(Andye Daley/Donor Network West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, for organs to be viable for donation, people have to die or be declared brain dead while on a ventilator, so blood keeps flowing to the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys. Sometimes those people need to stay on the ventilator for two or three days while transplant teams and recipients are lined up, and then the recipients need to be on a ventilator for surgery, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were very antsy about having non-COVID-19 patients on ventilators, taking up space, where they wanted to make sure they were ready for that next patient,” Whaley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many COVID-19 patients who died offered their organs for donation, but those were all declined out of the concern that recipients could become infected, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also issues with doing proper testing of donors who did not die from COVID-19, as hospitals did not have enough testing supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there may have been some organ turndowns that we normally wouldn't have seen,” said Dr. Chris Freise, an abdominal transplant surgeon at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a matter of policy, hospitals canceled virtually all organ transplants from living donors, where a spouse or other family member donates a kidney or section of their liver to a loved one in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coronavirus Coverage ","tag":"coronavirus"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That involves bringing two patients into the hospital – the donor and the recipient – and we certainly didn't want to put donors at any significant extra risk,” Freise said. “Living donor kidney transplant ground down to almost a complete halt in most programs across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living donations have continued to be postponed, deceased donations started to creep up slowly in mid-April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when Jimenez got her call from Freise’s team at UCSF. After three pregnancies, Jimenez’s antibody levels were about as high as they could be, which made finding a match for her very difficult, Freise said, “like a needle in a haystack.” That also put her at the top of the waiting list in case a match was found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez's phone rang at 2 a.m. on April 17, with transplant staff telling her it was time and to get to the hospital right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was excited,” she said. “But then my mind hit me: Somebody died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All she knows is that the person was 19 and died in an accident in Los Angeles. Jimenez wrote a letter to the donor’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them that I will forever be thinking of them,” she said. “I will have him or her in my body for the rest of my life, and I will live for both of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez has six months of recovery ahead of her. She says she’s looking forward to going back to work and having more energy to play with her kids.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11815219/more-hospital-complications-and-fewer-traffic-collisions-mean-longer-waits-for-organ-donations","authors":["3205"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_3269","news_24721","news_27670"],"featImg":"news_11815254","label":"source_news_11815219"},"news_11814184":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11814184","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11814184","score":null,"sort":[1587765113000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"assembly-members-may-have-to-get-tested-for-coronavirus-before-returning-to-sacramento","title":"Assembly Members May Get Tested for Coronavirus Before Returning to Sacramento","publishDate":1587765113,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>California Assembly leaders are considering whether to test all of its members and essential staff for the coronavirus before May 4, when the Legislature is scheduled to reconvene in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly members are being actively encouraged to request tests from their doctors, and the chamber is also asking Sacramento County’s public health officer to provide tests for essential staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The members of the Democratic caucus have had several discussions about potentially getting tested,\" Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Los Angeles, said in a statement. \"Due to the public nature of our work, the Sacramento County Public Health Officer is recommending Members get tested for COVID-19, and we are taking that guidance seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Rules Committee Chair Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova,coordinated the effort with Peter Beilenson, the county's Director of Health Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I gave the options of legislators going to be tested by their own doctors in their own districts,\" he said. \"And if they couldn't arrange for that to happen, when they came to Sacramento, they could be tested as UC Davis (Medical Center) or UC Davis staff would come and test them at their offices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beilenson said the same procedure applies for essential Assembly staff. He said the tests are extremely appropriate given that a large number of people will be gathering during Assembly sessions. The county will provide a maximum of 400 tests, which allows for the possibility that the Senate might want to test its members as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a written statement, Senate leader Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said there no current plans to provide tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is a very fluid situation, and we will continue to monitor and assess testing guidelines. The current guidelines make clear where the priorities for scarce tests lie, and the Senate is not recommending testing for Senators and staff unless they fall within those existing categories,\" Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Cooley acknowledged that it might look bad for Assembly members to be able to get tested while scores of other people still can’t, but he argued that they have a constitutional duty to meet and represent their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11813179,news_11811142\" label=\"related coverage\"]\"It's a more fundamental public value, which makes me feel it's legitimate to consider,\" he said. \"Is there some additive step that we might take to safeguard all who participate?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly lawyers believe its members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811142/governing-under-coronavirus-state-legislature-contemplates-remote-meetings\">cannot legally vote\u003c/a> on issues remotely, and must meet in person. In contrast, the state Senate considers remote voting constitutional and has passed a resolution allowing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cooley also acknowledged that testing members and staff now won't ensure they don’t get sick later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said nothing has been decided yet, and lawyers are still looking into whether testing should go forward. The potential policy also raises several legal questions, including what happens if someone refuses to be tested and whether a positive result would have to be disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't really have an answer,\" Cooley said. \"I don't really feel I can force the issue. 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He said the tests are extremely appropriate given that a large number of people will be gathering during Assembly sessions. The county will provide a maximum of 400 tests, which allows for the possibility that the Senate might want to test its members as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a written statement, Senate leader Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said there no current plans to provide tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize this is a very fluid situation, and we will continue to monitor and assess testing guidelines. The current guidelines make clear where the priorities for scarce tests lie, and the Senate is not recommending testing for Senators and staff unless they fall within those existing categories,\" Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Cooley acknowledged that it might look bad for Assembly members to be able to get tested while scores of other people still can’t, but he argued that they have a constitutional duty to meet and represent their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11813179,news_11811142","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"It's a more fundamental public value, which makes me feel it's legitimate to consider,\" he said. \"Is there some additive step that we might take to safeguard all who participate?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly lawyers believe its members \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811142/governing-under-coronavirus-state-legislature-contemplates-remote-meetings\">cannot legally vote\u003c/a> on issues remotely, and must meet in person. 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As of Friday, the state reported 12,026 confirmed COVID-19 cases, a 12.4% increase from the previous day, plus 276 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, cooped-up residents were pushing the limits of California’s stay-at-home order, with the San Diego County sheriff reporting issuing 22 citations to people near the beach in Encinitas, saying violators were doing things like having picnics near the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many beaches, parks and hiking trails around the state and most beach parking lots have been closed because they attracted large crowds. Death Valley National Park began closing Saturday, citing public health concerns during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not stepped up statewide enforcement of his stay-at-home order. But he warned people to obey local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is always prepared to do more. I just want to encourage people, don’t force our hand in that respect,” Newsom said. “We cannot allow cabin fever to come in. We cannot allow people to start congregating again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That appears to include major sports leagues such as the NFL, which has three teams in California. Asked if he thought the football season would start on time in September with fans in the stands, Newsom said: “I’m not anticipating that happening in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom on Saturday praised the state’s counties for agreeing, on a case-by-case basis, to cancel property-tax penalties for homeowners, small businesses and other property owners who have a demonstrated economic hardship. The governor added, however, that property owners who can afford to pay these taxes should continue to pay on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is good news for Californians. I would like to thank the California State Association of Counties and the California Association of County Treasurers and Tax Collectors for committing to providing economic relief for residents and small businesses facing hardships due to COVID-19,” Newsom said. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='coronavirus' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also signed an executive order temporarily suspending regulations to make it easier for essential workers in the health crisis such as nurses. doctors, emergency medical technicians, grocery workers and law enforcement officers to enroll their children in state-subsidized child care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been about 12,700 confirmed cases of COVID-19 virus infections in California and about 280 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Los Angeles County announced 28 new deaths Saturday — by far the largest rise in fatalities in a day there — for a total of 117. The county also reported 711 new cases, bringing the total number of cases to more than 5,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most dramatic increase in deaths we have seen since the COVID-19 crisis began, and our condolences go out to each and every person impacted by these heartbreaking losses,” the county’s public health officer, Barbara Ferrer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus mainly is spread through coughs and sneezes. For most people, it causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most states, California has struggled to define the scope of the virus outbreak because of a lack of testing. Newsom said the Golden State was “turning the page on our old approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He announced new partnerships with University of California campuses in Davis and San Diego to set up between five to seven testing hubs. Plus, he said Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories had committed to setting up 75 testing sites throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said researchers at Stanford University were close to getting approval for an antibody test that would tell not just whether someone has the virus, but also if they are immune. A spokeswoman for Stanford’s School of Medicine said one test is being performed as part of a study and another will be launched in its lab shortly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are now in a position where I can confidently say it is a new day,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s comments came the day before Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week for Christians. Most churches have moved their services online. But a few were defying public health officials by still having in-person worship services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']'I own that. I have a responsibility as your governor to do better.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, in the agricultural Central Valley, sent the city a “cease and desist” letter after police entered the church last week during a service attended by about 30 people. The church said the shelter-in-place orders violate its First Amendment rights regarding religious freedom and that it intended to continue its services, attorney Dean Broyles of the National Center for Law & Policy told the Sacramento Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials issued an order Friday closing the building the church uses for services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The faith-based community is all about love,” Newsom said. “If you love thy neighbor, you will practice physical distancing. 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As of Friday, the state reported 12,026 confirmed COVID-19 cases, a 12.4% increase from the previous day, plus 276 deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, cooped-up residents were pushing the limits of California’s stay-at-home order, with the San Diego County sheriff reporting issuing 22 citations to people near the beach in Encinitas, saying violators were doing things like having picnics near the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many beaches, parks and hiking trails around the state and most beach parking lots have been closed because they attracted large crowds. Death Valley National Park began closing Saturday, citing public health concerns during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not stepped up statewide enforcement of his stay-at-home order. But he warned people to obey local authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is always prepared to do more. I just want to encourage people, don’t force our hand in that respect,” Newsom said. “We cannot allow cabin fever to come in. 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