WA
Public Health - Seattle & King County
@KCPubHealth
Healthcare providers may test any patient in whom they suspect #COVID19.
While testing is becoming more available, there are limitations in healthcare providers’ capacity to obtain samples and process lab results rapidly.
While there are no restrictions who can get tested, not everybody who feels ill needs to be tested, particularly with mild illness.
If you’re sick with fever, cough or shortness of breath and are in a high risk group, call your healthcare provider to discuss #COVID19 testing.
https://twitter.com/KCPubHealth/status/1236390712360353792
Testing—CDC should have required every state to communicate basic data every day. The states would have to require outside labs to feed the states their data to compile:
How many tests (people) complete today/total to date:
How many positives (people) today/total to date:
How many negatives (people) today/total to date:
How many (people) need more datas/unresolved today/total still unresolved
That should have been posted on a website daily—heck today probably could even be real time....
This is not hard stuff...
What about the Seattle homeless ? No healthcare providers. It’s got to be running rampant throughout that vector.