The lime-green tents offering the novelty of $5 cash to take a COVID-19 test have agreed to leave town after taking heat from City Attorney David Chiu, who claims the tents were fueling the local drug trade.
And once again, according to the Examiner, Chiu has also chased these testing sites out of town. The green tents were apparently operated by a company called Gentech (which cleverly sounds like Genentech, but is not), and according to a release from Chiu's office, that company has agreed to cease all virus testing operations in San Francisco.
And Chiu seems to think they may have had a hand in the local illicit drug trade. Many of the testing tents operated near open air drug markets, and the cash payments appeared to facilitate drug sales and activity, the release adds.
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