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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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Reuters

As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, Reuters survey finds

As public school closures stretched into a full year, students across the United States many times encountered short-term or lasting mental health harm. Teachers were affected, too, Reuters found in a national survey of school districts.

USA Today

Schools already testing students and staff for coronavirus say it's crucial to in-person class: 'It's worth it'

Public health experts are optimistic widespread vaccination will drive case counts lower, but testing remains critical to track new cases and variants that might make the virus more contagious or deadly.

The 74 Million

200 Schools, Universal Weekly COVID Screening: How ‘Assurance Testing’ Has Kept Thousands of Texas Students in Classrooms

Determined to keep San Antonio schools open, the newly created nonprofit Community Labs is running an assurance testing operation at a size and scale unique in the country, officials said.

Texas Monthly

These Texans Started Their Own Testing Facilities as Coronavirus Screening Lagged

Widespread “assurance testing” could effectively end the pandemic before the vaccine does, but a lack of federal coordination has left some citizens to fill screening gaps.

NEWS4SA

Free Covid-19 tests for asymptomatic people now available weekdays at AT&T Center

With Covid-19 numbers rising and the start of the holiday season approaching, there's growing concern that the next few months could see large spikes for the disease. Community Labs has made it safer for families to get together for the Thanksgiving holiday. It's free tests are available for anyone who doesn't have Covid symptoms. The AT&T Center is the latest site for the tests.

San Antonio Express News

Tech entrepreneur Graham Weston on catching COVID-19 and launching Community Labs, his mass-testing project

Graham Weston experienced dread, the existential kind, in March and early April. The downtown real estate developer and co-founder of Rackspace Technology caught COVID-19 from his 22-year-old son. His symptoms were the most familiar ones: fever, chills, chest pains and difficulty breathing.

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.

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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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