Santa Cruz Local’s Jerimiah Oetting answers a listener’s question on what UC Santa Cruz is doing to help with COVID testing. Short answer: Professors have organized to potentially process hundreds of COVID tests per day on campus. The project awaits federal certification and could come online as early as May. This is important because increasing local testing capacity is one of the criteria needed to lift the shelter-in-place order.

This episode is the second installment of ‘Santa Cruz Local Answers,’ where Jerimiah tackles your coronavirus-related questions. 

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