De Blasio sat on offer to provide free COVID-19 testing for students

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 De Blasio sat on offer to provide free COVID-19 testing for students

By Christopher Cameron

August 29, 2020 | 10:39am | Updated
 

While educrats scramble to get schools ready for opening in less than two weeks and teachers threaten a sickout over the lack of planned mandatory COVID-19 testing, a respected healthcare agency has revealed that Mayor de Blasio for two months sat on its to test school kids and teachers for free.

Beginning in June, the 800,000-patient, 2,500-doctor Somos network said it reached out to the mayor five times to offer to set up free testing sites at NYC’s most at-risk public schools. But meetings were canceled and calls ignored — until this week, when de Blasio finally had a video chat with the agency on Wednesday.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/de-blasio-sitting-on-offer-of-free-school-covid-19-testing/

[PeteS in CA]

IOW:

1. The tests - kits, skilled people, and processing capacity - were readily available at least as long ago as June.

2. Re-opening NYC schools was never considered, not in June, not in July, and not in August. De Blah-Blah's PLAN has always been to keep NYC schools closed until ?? - maybe November 4th, maybe January, 2021, maybe June, 2021.