Patients Seeking Tests, COVID Relief Stressing SF Healthcare System

By Wilson Walker, CBS San Francisco:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco General Hospital continues to see a lot of traffic, but it’s not all sick patients. Many of the people showing up are those who just can’t find a test anywhere else.

“My wife needs to get a test because she’s coughing and we think she has COVID,” said Arthur Penta, dropping his wife off at the hospital to wait for a test.

It was a non-stop flow of people at SF General Monday, many of them getting desperate as other testing sites got overwhelmed or shut down.

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