Santa Clara County Residents Eligible For COVID-19 Test Project

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Santa Clara and San Mateo County residents are now eligible to be screened and tested for the new coronavirus by a medical technology company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, TechCrunch reports.

South San Francisco-based Verily launched the testing program through Project Baseline, which had previously served as a platform connecting prospective participants with medical research studies.

The project was inaccurately described by President Trump in a news conference Friday in which he falsely claimed that “Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now.”

Eligible participants must be 18 years of age or older, be located in a county where testing is available, be willing to sign a COVID-19 Public Health authorization form and be able to speak and read English.

Verily’s website features a survey to determine initial eligibility and a more extensive questionnaire to determine a person’s risk for contracting coronavirus.

Those directed to a mobile site will have a mucus sample taken with a nasal swab sent to a laboratory, which will return the results in a few days.

Verily is working with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office on expanding the project to additional parts of the Bay Area and the state.

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