Cities Are Shutting Down Covid-19 Testing Because of Protests

Hampering coronavirus testing could make the pandemic harder to control

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
3 min readJun 3, 2020

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Thousands of people took to the streets this week to protest the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. In some cities, rioting and looting occurred alongside the protests, leaving windows smashed in and…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.