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Meet the Labs Tasked with Making LA’s COVID Testing Mandate Work

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Los Angeles health care workers and school faculty (who cannot get vaccinated) are now mandated by the state to get tested regularly. Municipal employees from bus drivers to police officers must be routinely tested in the city and county if they are not vaccinated. Meanwhile, commercial labs, medical labs, and public health labs are tasked with making sure the tests get processed and rapidly turned around.