By Nico Savidge, The Mercury News, April 8, 2020
Even as public health officials cautiously cheer the apparent success of efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, there is still no end in sight for the shelter in place orders that have upended daily life for millions across the country.
That’s because the questions of when and how life in the Bay Area and elsewhere will return to something like normal hinge in large part on the problem that has hampered the United States’ response to COVID-19 from the beginning: The need to substantially ramp up testing for the deadly virus.
And while California has seen far fewer deaths than other parts of the country, Gov. Gavin Newsom cautioned that moving too quickly, and without adequate testing, to loosen the orders he and others credit with “flattening the curve” of new infections risks undoing the progress the state has made.
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