Few takers for free anti-COVID pills at Bay Area ‘test-to-treat’ site
LA TimesA defunct senior center in West Berkeley was transformed in mid-May into one of California’s new “test-to-treat” sites. But a few days later, after talking to an advice nurse, she found herself in the scrubby courtyard of a defunct senior center in West Berkeley that had been transformed into one of the state’s new “test-to-treat” sites. Dr. Tomás Aragón, the state public health officer, said the goal of the test-to-treat campaign is to “ensure high-risk patients have access to treatments that can keep them out of the hospital.” The state says its priority is to make the pills accessible to millions of older, chronically ill and disabled Americans, especially the poor and uninsured — even if few people have heard about the drugs. “I think it’s a new concept that people are still getting used to,” said Katharine Sullivan, a Berkeley city employee overseeing the West Berkeley site, which has served as a community testing site since early in the pandemic.
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