Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Aug. 13, 2020
Judge won’t let state prisons manage own virus testing
After months of sparring over the issue, plaintiffs' attorneys seek a court order to force the agency to modify its plan. They want the state to more robustly retest symptomatic staff and expand the scope of testing done when there is an outbreak.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The state prisons department should be trusted to manage its coronavirus staff testing plan without interference from lawyers representing inmates and the federal judge overseeing its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 at its facilities, an agency attorney argued Wednesday.
Slamming the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for not fully briefing him on the plan, U.S. District Judge
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