To determine how deeply the coronavirus has spread in a hard-hit community, researchers are offering free testing for everyone older than 4 years old in San Francisco's Mission District.
Turnout has been good so far, the UCSF researchers say. By the end of the day Monday, more than 2,500 residents had been tested. To get people to show up, a small army of volunteers for the project hit the streets starting Saturday, knocking on doors and passing out flyers in English and Spanish — offering information about the project going on at testing sites set up around the neighborhood.
Wearing protective masks as they waited in line for a test Monday, Mission residents Jeanette Gehrig and Ian Schillebeeckx, both trained scientists, said they jumped at the chance to get tested when they saw the flyer about it. People who test positive will get follow up"contact tracing" phone calls and texts from UCSF experts who,, are working with the city's health department and the Latino Task Force. They will be asked to self-quarantine for two weeks.
"Maybe you're undocumented and can't miss work and don't get federal stimulus checks. So there's just this whole complication of some of the fears and the angst and the anxiety. And so we're trying our best to work through that and message the fact that, 'look, at its core this can be life or death,'"Jacobo says.
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