Testing at the Doris Ison Health Center in Miami, on Wednesday. Photo: Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
Posted on 03/19/2020 12:57:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
As screening sites open and close, supplies run short and criteria for participation change, many can’t determine if they have the virus
Feeling sick on Friday, Rachael Willingham went to the doctor, who gave her an order for the new coronavirus test and sent her to a mobile clinic the Colorado health department had set up.
When she arrived at 9:45 a.m., a half-dozen police officers were blocking the entrance. She returned to the clinic that afternoon, but was told testing was over for the day.
Ms. Willingham called a number for the state health department and was told to come back Saturday at noon. She did, only to find testing had been moved to the Denver Coliseum. When she got to the stadium, she waited in a line of hundreds of cars for almost two hours, only to be turned away again with no explanation.
“It’s making this worse,” the 29-year-old said of the confusion over testing. “It’s contributing greatly to the sense of fear.”
As cases of Covid-19 have exploded across the U.S., state and local governments are taking on the task of testing for the coronavirus that causes it—and they have been quickly overwhelmed. Slowed by equipment shortages and struggling to keep pace, officials have set up a chaotic patchwork of testing sites, with access varying wildly from one place to another. Now some states and counties are pulling back, using their limited resources to test only the most vulnerable.
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Testing at the Doris Ison Health Center in Miami, on Wednesday. Photo: Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
Please add chaos to the encyclopedia of most overused and misused words.
We need an antibody test now! Many more have already had this virus than previously thought.
Don’t forget “perfect storm,” “wake-up call,” and “existential threat.”
Also “teachable moment” and “black swan event.”
Yeah, and they got it while Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and Adam Schiff were busy impeaching PDJT.
That might add a bit of perspective and help calm things down.
so we’re suppose to be surprised in a nation where people were hoarding toilet paper out of panic, there’s testing chaos?? How many people do you think unnecessarily went for testing??
Probably 75%+.....................
There is word of a blood antibody test, posted earlier on FR
MIT Technology Review ^ | 3/18/20 | Antonio Regalado (excerpt)
A team at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City developed a test, described in a preprint paper released today, which looks for = antibodies to the coronavirus in people’s blood...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3825897/posts
I posted about this here as a vanity a week ago and was bashed.
Testing is still messed up. Takes five days to get results here and the patient has to test negative for a screen that takes several days to get lab results for.
So we’ve got tens of thousands infected who don’t know they’re infected out there spreading it.
But what’s happened to “transgender,” “CIS gender,” “sustainable” and “global climate catastrophe”? Like the chicken pox virus, did they go into hideout for a while?
The “news” needs to cut them some slack. They scrapped an archaic system that couldn’t even come close to what needed to be done and built a faster, more efficient system able to handle vastly large numbers of tests in just 2 weeks. Of COURSE there will be glitches.
“How many people do you think unnecessarily went for testing??”
Since one cannot get tested without an Rx from a physician, I would say none.
The same nation where people are walking in and bugging pharmacies for something they can take for that virus thingy, then getting verklempt when the pharmacist tries to explain that there isn't any medicine he can give them, and they need to call their doctor
Not sure why there is “chaos” or why anyone would go running around demanding to be tested. If you feel that sick, go to the ER - if you present with symptoms that warrant testing for coronavirus, you’ll be tested. If you don’t feel that sick, stay home, self-isolate just as you should if you have a cold or the flu, and rest till you feel better.
This is one of the cluster fluck over promise and under deliver mistakes the task force has made.
When you are leading the charge and issuing directives for others to do make sure to see that they are capable of following and then make sure they are in fact following.
What the task force claimed last week was impossible on the face of it. The briefings have increasingly become more of a clown show and repetition and propaganda than useful. At least Chloraquim calmed the markets a bit today. Still, FDA stubbornly refuses to allow it for other than humanitarian needs meaning only if you are going to die anyway. NO way to let us use it to make people better before they come to death’s door. Sheeesh. What a crock of steaming feces.
They should test Chaos. And Wongs, and Chus. I mean, they don’t call it the Chinese Virus for nothing. Wadda want’em to do, test Schwartz, O’Reilly and Kozlowski?
I have long said that all the SJW nonsense will vanish if there's a real national emergency, like another world war.
The SJW culture is in my view just a symptom of hyper-wealthy, ultra-pampered culture, in which people can sit around navel-gazing and feeling sorry for themselves.
Misery loves company, and the internet allows these losers to link up into communities and make each other feel important.
Normal people don't have time for that stuff, are too busy trying to live their lives and take care of their families.
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