according to the Pence presser, a person has to go thru their doctor right now to get the test ordered. Out here in calif, Quest Diagnostics is a test lab - and they’re just about everywhere so doctor’s lab orders can be filled pretty conveniently. So tests will be accessible.
But what they’re trying to prevent is a Thanksgiving Black Friday-type crush where everybody and their cousin want to get tested ‘just because’. (this is what happened in Wuhan where there are no private doctors for the working class so everyone shows up to the hospital). The problem of false negatives, a trait of this virus, means multiple tests. So we have to have brakes on the system. At least, that’s how I see it.
If Quest Diagnostics is the lab then I wonder how long before DirectLabs.com has the test.