Over 200 Cal Guard members will be “deployed across 50 Optum Serve Sites to increase access to testing quickly, increase staff and add walk-in capacity beginning today and throughout the coming weeks.
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- A spokesperson for the governor said the following testing sites in San Diego County are now receiving assistance from members of the National Guard and expanded operations on Friday.
- Additional members of the guard will be deployed next week in similar capacities.
- This comes after local county health officials urged the public Friday to not only get all vaccinations and the booster but to only seek testing for the illness if necessary.
- According to county data, in the past month, confirmed COVID-19 cases jumped from around 4,700 per week to more than 45,000 cases reported in the seven days between Dec. 29, 2021, through Tuesday. That is nearly a tenfold increase in just 30 days.
SOURCE: NBC
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