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COVID-19 tests provide crucial clues about how to fight coronavirus, but they ve fallen in Washington state

× COVID-19 tests provide crucial clues about how to fight coronavirus, but they’ve fallen in Washington state By Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times Published: April 15, 2021, 7:56am Share: Coronavirus testing got off to a disastrous start last year, putting the nation in a position of playing catch-up to the pandemic. The delay in getting widespread testing in February, 2020, left local and state health departments blind to community transmission of the coronavirus. Now, a year removed from the first drive-thru testing sites, the crush of people seeking tests is gone, replaced by a rush to schedule vaccinations. But testing is an essential tool in the fight to suppress the coronavirus and to identify variants.

Getting a COVID test is easier than last year and still important

Getting a COVID test is easier than last year and still important By Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times Published: April 14, 2021, 8:00am Share: Staffer Kelly Lund swabs her mouth while demonstrating the process to conduct a self-administered oral COVID-19 test at the new Tower Mall rapid testing site in Vancouver. The site offers free COVID-19 tests in a socially distant drive-thru or walk-up configuration. (Samuel Wilson for the Columbian) Coronavirus testing got off to a disastrous start last year, putting the nation in a position of playing catch-up to the pandemic. The delay in getting widespread testing in February 2020 left local and state health departments blind to community transmission of the coronavirus. Now, a year removed from the first drive-thru testing sites, the crush of people seeking tests is gone, replaced by a rush to schedule vaccinations. But testing is an essential tool in the fight to suppress the coronavirus and to identify variants.

Yale Study: Shorter Quarantine Times Are Sufficient To Halt COVID Spread

1:34 The CDC generally recommends a 14-day quarantine for people who may have been exposed to COVID-19. A study from the Yale School of Public Health said that time could be cut in half but only with well-timed testing. Jeffrey Townsend is with the Yale School of Public Health. He and his team studied workers who quarantined before going back to work on oil rigs. “And it sounds like a very specialized sort of thing, this oil rig situation. But actually it’s just like the problem that we’re facing if we’re going to visit our elderly aunts and uncles or our elderly parents,” Townsend said.

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