Alphabet's COVID-19 Project Takes Pause
Alphabet's Project Baseline by Verily reached capacity and can't schedule more coronavirus testing "at this time," said its website Wednesday. Appointments will continue to expand through this program as Verily scales capacity "in the near future," it said. It referred…
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visitors to CDC guidelines. Google sister company Verily posted Monday that Project Baseline was working to deliver COVID-19 testing in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in California to the "highest risk populations as defined by the California Department of Public Health." Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in getting tested were directed to an online screener, which appeared to exclude people who showed symptoms of COVID-19. Last week, President Donald Trump hailed a screening website Google was building, receiving widespread criticism for exaggerating its readiness. Sunday Google blogged it was working with the U.S. government on developing a website dedicated to COVID-19 education, prevention and local resources nationwide. That website hadn't launched Wednesday.