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The latest news, scientific papers and downloads related to Community Labs and COVID-19 Testing.

Geekdom Testing Pilot

Intensive Testing FAQ’s

The Pilot Program is a 4 week program where, in addition to the existing health and safety protocols in place, we will test every member working at Geekdom once every 7 days. In the first week, we will test on Monday and Wednesday from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm and adjust scheduling and availability as needed. The tests will be administered by medical professionals in the Geekdom Event Centre.

News 4 SA

Intensive Covid-19 testing marks latest innovation wrinkle for Geekdom

To provide an even safer working environment, anyone using Geekdom's space starting next week will be required to take a nasal test too.

Kens 5

Geekdom starts testing members for coronavirus

The goal is to re-open part of the innovation hub of downtown SA.

San Antonio Business Journal

Geekdom launches COVID-19 testing pilot program for its members

San Antonio-based Geekdom LC will launch a free, mandatory Covid-19 testing pilot program for members using the local coworking space.

San Antonio Business Journal

Coworking startup space to implement mandatory Covid-19 testing

San Antonio-based Geekdom, the #1 coworking place in city, will launch a free, mandatory Covid-19 testing pilot program for members using the local coworking space.

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The Journal Podcast, The Wall Street Journal

A Billionaire's Plan for Mass Covid Testing

Tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Graham Weston caught Covid from an asymptomatic carrier. Now, he's embarking on a mission to control the virus through cheap, widespread testing - starting off in one Texas town. WSJ's Rob Copeland explains the experiment.

Texas Public Radio

San Antonio-Based Community Labs Aims To Spread Its Method Of Asymptomatic Testing Across The Country

It’s become obvious that without a vaccine, COVID-19 will be with us for a while. Testing and contact tracing have helped to stop the spread of the virus, but half of COVID cases begin with catching the virus from someone who doesn’t have symptoms. A San Antonio non-profit biotech organization is pursuing more testing for asymptomatic people, not only in San Antonio, but across the country.

News4SA

Cheap, widespread COVID-19 testing born in San Antonio may help reopen Texas

It started as just an idea over lunch between three of San Antonio’s power brokers at a downtown San Antonio restaurant. Now, only three months later, it’s already grown into a multi-million dollar effort that’s bringing highly accurate COVID-19 testing to tens of thousands of people in this area who are not showing any symptoms of the virus.

Lone Star Health News

Lone Stars on the Medical Frontier: J. Bruce Bugg Jr. Embraces Innovation to Quell COVID-19’s ‘Silent Spread’

Three philanthropic civic and business leaders in San Antonio unleashed their entrepreneurial power to solve a hidden danger posed by the pandemic: the "silent spread" of COVID-19.

Wall Street Journal

A Texas Tycoon Throws Millions at the Covid Testing Puzzle

A hotly debated attempt to solve America’s coronavirus testing shortage began with a sick, frustrated billionaire at home in a leafy Texas Hill Country town north of San Antonio.

San Antonio Report

Community Labs founders hope to duplicate local coronavirus testing model across Texas

The business and scientific minds behind a new coronavirus testing effort in San Antonio say that if their model works the way they think it will, it could be replicated across the state and the nation.

Schools

Texas Tribune

Analysis: With schools opening, Texas enters a critical two weeks of the pandemic

Texas is poised right now as it was in late April: COVID-19 numbers are moving in the right direction, and reopenings — schools this time — are underway. Everyone's hoping for a different result this time.

San Antonio Report

Educators to City leaders: School reopening is being rushed

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District should not recommend in-person schooling until the curve has been more soundly flattened, according to a coalition of education professionals that had been involved in helping Metro Health determine its guidance on reopening schools.

Wall Street Journal

Remote Schools’ Hidden Cost: Parents Quit Work to Teach, Prompting New Recession Woes

Online school could force more than 4 million working parents out of labor force, researchers say

San Antonio Report

San Antonio school districts will welcome thousands back to class – from a distance

Students around Bexar County woke up Monday for their first day of school. Instead of walking down the halls to join teachers and friends in their new classrooms, they’ll be powering on devices and logging in to their first classes online, as most school districts won’t welcome students back on campuses until after Labor Day.

NY Times

Can Los Angeles Schools Test 700,000 Students and 75,000 Employees? That’s the Plan

Classes will start remotely. But the nation’s second-largest school district has perhaps the most ambitious plan to test students and employees for the coronavirus.

Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Screening Strategies to Permit the Safe Reopening of College Campuses in the United States

This analytic modeling study of a hypothetical cohort of 4990 college-age students without SARS-CoV-2 infection and 10 students with undetected asymptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection suggested that frequent screening (every 2 days) of all students with a low-sensitivity, high-specificity test might be required to control outbreaks with manageable isolation dormitory utilization at a justifiable cost.

Testing

Wall Street Journal

Covid-19 Tests: Answers on Cost, Accuracy and Turnaround Time

I need a coronavirus test. What kind of test can I get and when will I get the result?

The New Yorker

We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—If We Want To

The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.

Pro Publica

America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One.

While it battles a virus that can spread quickly via silent carriers, the United States has yet to execute a strategy for testing asymptomatic people. This is a problem — and ProPublica health reporter Caroline Chen explains why.

Wall Street Journal

Test Every American for Covid-19

American Hospital Association

FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Diagnostic Test for Asymptomatic People

The Food and Drug Administration Friday reissued its emergency use authorization for the LabCorp COVID-19 RT-PCR Test to include authorized use for asymptomatic individuals and for pooled sample testing with up to five individual specimens. FDA previously authorized emergency use of the test for patients with suspected COVID-19 and individual specimens.

Broad Institute

Surveillance testing of nursing homes shows most who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 had no reported symptoms

Individuals with and without symptoms at the time of testing have similar viral loads, suggesting significant transmission regardless of current symptom status.

White Papers

PNAS

The implications of silent transmission for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks

Scientists To Stop COVID-19

A group of non-partisan, independent scientists have come together to develop an objective framework for policymakers. Read more about their in-depth research and recommendations.

COVID-19 Case Timeline

Based on the latest research, this timeline shows the average incubation period for COVID-19 from the initial days since the first onset of symptoms to the estimated end of infectious period.

#Test4SA

Together we can make San Antonio the safest city in America.

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