The decision comes despite warnings from experts about the importance of COVID testing to keep up with the surge of the highly transmissible omicron variant.
A restaurant worker checks the temperature of a customer in San Francisco, Jan. 4, 2022.
"It's going to have a terrible impact," he said."It reminds me of early March 2020 when we didn't have enough testing. Of course we have a lot more tests numerically, but the proportion seems to be the same because the percentage of those needing testing is definitely not met by the number of available tests."
"It was already hard to get a test in San Francisco and now it just got harder and that’s unacceptable," he told ABC News."Our department of public health had expanded capacity at a number of sites. But it wasn't enough. Now they’re cutting back because of staffing shortages."Haney, however, argued that testing sites need to make sure they are consistently meeting demand.
Haney wants to call a hearing on testing to get more answers on why it's been so difficult for residents to get tests.
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