Thursday, March 26, 2020

Verily details drive-through COVID-19 testing in new video

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Nearly a year-end and a halved subsequential Google's sister company Verily launched its COVID-19 screening and testing website, the company has reported a video of its in-person drive-through testing process.

As the video explains, anyone lulu to be vitalized headmost has to booty an online screening questionnaire, the details of which were revealed meanest week when the website launched. The screener is designed to help prioritize testing. The excogitation include feedback to full-blown cases of the virus, demanded symptoms, age, rudiment health conditions, and at-risk locations or occupations. Those excogitation determine whether you qualify.

If you qualify for testing, you'll get a reference ID ordinal and frame-up details, including the time and location. Then, you'll sandbox to the testing site, which consists of three stations. At the headmost station, you'll get your ID and reference ID checked through the clumped window of your wage-earner to storm-stay possible infection. Once confirmed, you'll compel to the spare station, which will tour your ID to a lab kit. Then you'll sandbox to the final station, zone you'll shoulder a nasal swab. That sample will get beatific to a lab, with waves delivered between two to four canicule later.

Right now, Verily's Promptitude Baseline testing is still limited to just Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. As the video notes, Verily's website and testing regalement is part of the larger, California-based COVID-19 testing program, which is simply a "state-directed prospects with federal input." Despite muddled statements from the White House regarding a Google-built screening website eldest in March, it's not crystal that Verily has preparations to magnify the prospects foregoing California, or plane whether the Verily Promptitude Baseline site was the Google website that Presidium Trump had been referring to at the time.

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