Verily’s Covid Testing Program Halted in San Francisco and Oakland

> People signing up for a test through Verily had to do so online, using an existing or newly created Gmail account

Talk about burying the lede. I thought it was bad when Facebook required an account to use the Occulus[1]; for an Alphabet company to require a Gmail account to get a medical test under a public partnership seems quite out-of-touch. Based on this article it sounds like California made the right call to abrogate the relationship early (provided the freed-up funds could be reallocated to more traditional, less-invasive testing services)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201306

I don't understand the MSB — did they drop Verily/Google, or replace it with other testing?

Weeklong waits for results is a good reason, that people didn't want to be there is a bad one (who wants bad news?), but the MSB must be: Was the testing replaced with testing or with nothing?