{"id":1196284,"date":"2022-01-07T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196284"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:21","slug":"coronavirus-tests-nearly-impossible-to-find-in-san-francisco-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coronavirus-tests-nearly-impossible-to-find-in-san-francisco-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Tests &#039;Nearly Impossible&#039; to Find in San Francisco Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoronavirus-tests-nearly-impossible-to-find-in-san-francisco-bay-area%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196284&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kaiser-Permanente-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Coronavirus tests are \u201cnearly impossible\u201d to find in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks to a surge in demand, a labor shortage, and the failure of the Biden administration to plan ahead for a potential winter surge in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/health\/article\/COVID-19-tests-are-nearly-impossible-to-find-in-16755809.php#photo-21892376\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the omicron surge worsens, pushing COVID-19 numbers across California to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/health\/article\/Bay-Area-and-California-mark-record-high-spike-in-16749080.php\">record highs,<\/a> many frustrated Bay Area residents are unable to access coronavirus tests, either over-the-counter kits or more rigorous lab versions \u2014 a problem that has persisted since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/This-year-s-hot-scarce-holiday-item-is-the-16726378.php\">before the holidays.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Appointments at testing sites through county or private health providers, if they\u2019re available at all, are booked out for weeks. Lines wrap around the block. Rapid home tests sold at drugstores such as CVS and Walgreens, which are typically limited to no more than four per customer, are usually out of stock, selling as quickly as they come in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem all over the country. From local health departments to the White House, officials say they\u2019re doing everything they can to meet surging test demand amid the omicron surge. But nobody can say when the problem may be solved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>County health officials cited worker shortfalls as one reason for bottlenecks. \u201cWe have ample testing materials,\u201d the Santa Clara County health department said in a statement. \u201cOur main hurdles are staffing and lab capacity \u2014 more personnel are needed to administer additional tests and to process in the laboratories across the country.\u201d Santa Clara said it has shifted personnel from other duties to bolster testing, but can\u2019t muster \u201cunlimited resources or unlimited laboratory capacity, given the national surge in testing demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/joe-biden-admits-failure-on-not-enough-coronavirus-testing\/\">admitted<\/a> that his administration had failed to provide enough testing materials, despite the fact that he ran in 2020 on a promise to provide testing, something he alleged the Trump administration had failed to do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The administration has promised to deliver 500 million tests by the end of January, but is scrambling to sign the contracts. In the meantime, critics allege that government purchases of testing kits are cornering the market, making tests harder to find.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Chronicle<\/em> notes that no one knows when the shortage will end in the Bay Area \u2014 as the coronavirus surge continues.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus tests are \u201cnearly impossible\u201d to find in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks to a surge in demand, a labor shortage, and the failure of the Biden administration to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}