Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk R-Santa Clarita, released a statement Monday, after the California Department of Public Health (COULDPH) released a long-awaited report on a  state-funded $1.7 billion COVID-19 testing lab in Valencia.

The statement comes after Wilk has sent two letters to Governor Gavin Newsom’s office to investigate the Valencia lab.   

“It should not have taken 287 days for Californians to receive answers about this taxpayer-funded COVID testing lab. Especially when our vulnerable students are the ones at-risk,” Wilk said. “Parents and families deserve accountability and transparency from the Newsom Administration. The allegations exposed in February were troubling to say the least — swapped samples, inaccurate results, contamination and beyond. Not to mention, private labs are producing the same results at a reduced cost. Looks like we can add this to the list of the times Newsom has failed to ‘meet the moment.'”

Click here to read the report released by the CDPH.

Last month, Wilk sent two letters to CDPH requesting for the release of the report and the halting of the auto-renew of the $1.7 billion contract for Perkin Elmer. Click here and here to read the letters. 

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