 Dear LA County Education Partners,
It is important to address the increased risk of COVID-19 exposure that occurs in the winter months.. As we look forward to celebrating holidays with our families, activities also start moving indoors, and there is increased travel and gatherings for the holidays.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has ample free over-the-counter COVID-19 Antigen Tests available for schools and districts to use for students during the upcoming school breaks and holidays. We recommend you and/or your partners request tests as soon as possible to allow time for delivery and distribution to students and families ahead of Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. To place an order, submit a request using the linked survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/COVID19-Test-Request-Schools-Childcare.
Once antigen test requests are submitted, processing and delivery can take up to 2 weeks. To account for this processing and delivery time, please submit all orders needed for upcoming breaks and fall/winter holidays as soon as possible. If tests are needed to support an active outbreak, an upcoming school or program-based event, or if you need tests to distribute ahead of Thanksgiving and your request is outside of the 2-week window, please indicate these needs on the survey and your request will be expedited. For requests greater than 912 tests (456 boxes), test pick-up is available upon request and should be indicated in the Notes section of our survey.
Points of contact will receive an e-mail with an estimated delivery date and electronic resources:
Please note that the tests you receive will not be expired - the FDA has extended the expiration date of Inteliswab brand tests, which may not be reflected by the date on the box of tests. We have provided the link where you can check for FDA extensions by looking up the lot number. Note, the expiration date on the box is printed as year - month - day. For example, 2023 11 20 means November 20, 2023.
Additional information is included in the attached documents. For questions regarding ordering, please contact Public Health’s Test Kit Distribution Project Development & Logistics Unit (PDLU) at nCovid-TLT@ph.lacounty.gov. For all other questions, please contact the Public Health’s Education Sector Unit (ESU) at dph-education@ph.lacounty.gov.
If your school or district’s point of contact for test ordering has changed, please send an e-mail with the new contact’s information to dph-education@ph.lacounty.gov.
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