Families Scramble to Find COVID-19 Test Kits for Students Returning to School

Gov. Gavin Newsom past week vowed each pupil would get a take-home COVID-19 trial kit earlier returning to schoolhouse from wintertime break.

That is not the lawsuit successful the Bay Area, wherever respective families crossed the portion are scrambling to find a trial kit for their students.

In Contra Costa County, a spokesperson for the Mount Diablo Unified School District said the authorities did not nonstop them capable take-home trial kits for each pupil and unit member, which is wherefore students are not required to amusement a antagonistic trial effect erstwhile they instrumentality to school.

The territory had 22,000 take-home trial kits that were handed retired to those who wanted a kit connected a archetypal come, archetypal service basis.

A akin script is playing retired successful San Francisco, wherever investigating is not required, but encouraged.

"It's truly frustrating to maine that our schoolhouse territory doesn't person the capable fig of tests," Supervisor Matt Haney said. "It seems similar they were hoping to get them from the state."

Haney said astir 59,000 accelerated trial kits from the authorities volition get precocious adjacent week. That's excessively late, says Haney, due to the fact that classes resume connected Monday.

"We should beryllium investigating students earlier they travel backmost aft a agelong wintertime break," Haney said.

Oakland families volition not person a occupation having entree to a COVID test. The Oakland Unified School District said it handed not one, but 2 take-home trial kits to each student. All trial results indispensable beryllium uploaded to a schoolhouse tract earlier kids instrumentality to the classroom.

"I deliberation this has been handled truly well," said Jessica Eastman Stewart, an OUSD parent.