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Los Angeles Coronavirus Update: Mayor Eric Garcetti Reveals Effort To Accelerate Development Of $10 At Home COVID Tests
Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor“We’re making good progress,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at his coronavirus news conference on Wednesday.“The promising signs is [sic] that we see this week is proof that our progress is real. But we have to keep going,” the mayor urged.As part of that, Garcetti announced a new effort to “ramp up even more testing.”With rapid testing and earlier contact tracing, “80 percent of future infections could be prevented,” he said.Garcetti said that the county’s test sites currently use PCR tests, which he called “the diagnostic gold standard.” Garcetti said they can deliver highly-accurate results in 30 hours, sometimes sooner.
