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Here's UCSF's testing strategy:

https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/testing

As you can see, it doesn't involve testing people 8 or 9 times a week:

Testing is available to any member of the UCSF community with symptoms of COVID-19 and those who may have been exposed to the virus while working or learning on-site. Employees seeking a COVID-19 test should contact Occupational Health Services (OHS) at 415-514-7328 or email ohs@ucsf.edu. Students should contact UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) at 415-476-8736 or send a secure message to the student health nurse.

Also, some asymptomatic people can be randomly tested

UCSF Occupational Health Services (OHS) has launched the COVID-19 random Asymptomatic Testing Program (ATP) program to help monitor and prevent the spread of COVID-19 at UCSF. Each week, a randomly selected group of faculty, staff and students who work or learn on-site will receive an email inviting them to register for voluntary asymptomatic testing by filling out a Qualtrics survey. Volunteers who enroll will receive a follow-up call from OHS to schedule a time to submit a self-administered nasal swab for testing at one of UCSF’s on-site screening locations at the Mission Bay, Parnassus Heights, or Mount Zion campuses. Random ATP supplements the universal testing already in place for on-site workers and learners who have COVID-19 symptoms or may have been exposed to the virus on site.

But the majority of the community are only tested if symptomatic.

BC

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Stanford students, faculty and staff can be tested pretty much as often as they want. I don't think the Stanford community is the issue, more the county as a whole.

Most Stanford students aren't allowed back on campus, which is my point.  The energy and resources should be dedicated to making that possible.

BC

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Here's UCSF's testing strategy:

https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/testing

As you can see, it doesn't involve testing people 8 or 9 times a week:

Testing is available to any member of the UCSF community with symptoms of COVID-19 and those who may have been exposed to the virus while working or learning on-site. Employees seeking a COVID-19 test should contact Occupational Health Services (OHS) at 415-514-7328 or email ohs@ucsf.edu. Students should contact UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) at 415-476-8736 or send a secure message to the student health nurse.

Also, some asymptomatic people can be randomly tested

UCSF Occupational Health Services (OHS) has launched the COVID-19 random Asymptomatic Testing Program (ATP) program to help monitor and prevent the spread of COVID-19 at UCSF. Each week, a randomly selected group of faculty, staff and students who work or learn on-site will receive an email inviting them to register for voluntary asymptomatic testing by filling out a Qualtrics survey. Volunteers who enroll will receive a follow-up call from OHS to schedule a time to submit a self-administered nasal swab for testing at one of UCSF’s on-site screening locations at the Mission Bay, Parnassus Heights, or Mount Zion campuses. Random ATP supplements the universal testing already in place for on-site workers and learners who have COVID-19 symptoms or may have been exposed to the virus on site.

But the majority of the community are only tested if symptomatic.

BC

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Stanford students, faculty and staff can be tested pretty much as often as they want. I don't think the Stanford community is the issue, more the county as a whole.

Most Stanford students aren't allowed back on campus, which is my point.  The energy and resources should be dedicated to making that possible.

BC