Health Equity

When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers

Abstract: The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: May 28, 2020

Author(s): Usha Lee McFarling

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