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Bolinas Tests All 1,800 for COVID-19. But No One Tests Positive.

An unexpected result from first attempt to test an entire town in the U.S.
By - posted 4/29/2020 No Comment

Last week, (April 20-23) one Bay Area city attempted to become among the first towns in the world to test every resident for COVID-19 and then formulate a plan to contact trace and quarantine to fight the virus.

1844 residents and first responders were tested in the secluded North Bay town of Bolinas in a privately-funded study. It turns out that no one in the entire town tested positive for currently having coronavirus.

Two Bolinas residents funded the $400,000 study conducted through UCSF. Read more (you’ll have to scroll down a lot to the section on April 29 at 8am) at SF Gate or on Marin Independent Journal (paywall) – or you can read updates at bolinastesting.org when they are officially released.

h/t SF Gate and Marin Independent Journal