Thank you for sharing these! That looks quite concerning, particularly the small number of ICU beds remaining alongside the surge in usage.
I wonder if they have enough data on who’s going to worsen to transfer future ICU-bound patients to other hospitals with more spare capacity.
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test TATs are still variable. Depends on the lab, their capacity, the demand, etc..
My lab (Tx med center) is getting ~70% of tests reported out in ~24 hours, ~92% of tests out in less than 48 hrs and >98% in under 4 days.
But there are some that have to be re-run due to either too low of a human signal (which can signal a poor sample collection, mishandled sample, etc...), or if only one of the two viral genes being tested for is found (could be false positive, or could be true positive but on the limit of detection of the assay)
Samples falling into those situations are re-run a second time to make sure before being reported out.
We’ve also seen our demand as well as positive rate shoot up this past week.
As an anecdote, we were averaging a 4-5% positive rate for April and May. Our positive rate is relatively low because we process about half congregate site blanket testing and half drive-up sites. Of the ~600 tests we’ve processed so far today (again about half and half from congregate sites and drive up), our positive percentage on the day is ~19%