“We see this as a key to helping stop the spread of infection in our families and bringing our infection rates down as a community as a whole.” “Expanding testing allows us to address the disparate impact of COVID-19 on our Latinx community in particular and provide support to those who find it most difficult to be separated from their families and isolate during this challenging time,” said Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will be reviewing these enhanced strategies at its meeting on Tuesday, Oct. The enhanced strategy includes increasing COVID-19 testing, offering gift cards to encourage people in certain neighborhoods to be tested and offering financial assistance to individuals who lack resources to miss work and safely isolate for 10 days or more after testing positive for COVID-19. The effort is part of new County Department of Health Services initiative to address COVID-19 disparities, particularly within Latinx and indigenous communities in Sonoma County, and to reduce overall community spread, allowing the County to move out of the most-restrictive purple tier in the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. 20 and is encouraging residents, particularly those disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus, to be tested regardless of whether they have symptoms or have been exposed to someone who is COVID-19 positive. The County of Sonoma is doubling the number of pop-up test sites available to the public beginning Tuesday, Oct.
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