Alphabet’s Verily debuts a COVID-19 community testing toolkit as it scales its own testing efforts
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/30/alphabets-verily-debuts-a-covid-19-community-testing-toolkit-as-it-scales-its-own-testing-efforts/
While the origins of its coronavirus testing program were muddled by President Trump’s misleading announcements attributing its efforts to Google and inflating its scale, Alphabet’s Verily health sciences subsidiary has established and grown its community-based California testing initiative, deploying drive-up testing sites and ramping the number of tests completed from just over 1,200 last Wednesday to over 3,700 as of Saturday.
The Verily team detailed its progress in a new blog post, and CNBC reported last week that it has brought on 1,000 new volunteers from Google and other Alphabet companies to help increase its testing efforts and bring testing sites to new areas. In total, there are four testing sites in operation across California, which took two weeks to set up.