Updated 5:40 AM
Hollywood tests actors three times a week for COVID-19. The NBA tests players daily. Congress required testing anyone attending President Joe Biden’s April 28 State of the Union address who had not been vaccinated.
These are examples of what are called “screening tests”—a way to ensure Biden, Tom Cruise and Damian Lillard can do their jobs through the pandemic without major outbreaks.
Some Portland parents and teachers want to see a version of this regimen in Portland Public Schools. And they fault the Oregon Health Authority for choosing a smaller, slower testing system as students return to classrooms in neighborhoods overrun by the coronavirus, even as the federal government has provided funding for screening tests.