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Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this
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Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 9:10 PM

may not be true in your neighborhood, but... My SIL is a 30-yr. ICU RN at the largest hospital in the CSRA... Their current wait time on test results thru Quest Diagnostics is 10 days... Yep, 10 DAYS! Quest says they're overwhelmed. To entertain the idea that the spread is flattening at this time is futile folly.

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Of course they are when...


Mar 26, 2020, 9:12 PM

every hypochondriac in America with a sniffle thinks they need one.

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These are the admitted patients... No idea about the public.


Mar 26, 2020, 9:15 PM

Think about that...

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Re: Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 9:15 PM

there is a a quest diagnostics down stairs in our building. There has not been a soul there for 2 weeks. apparently there are no hypochondriacs here.

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Actual lab or what...?***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:17 PM



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Ive seen empty lab tents all over Atlanta area.***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:18 PM



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Maybe they stopped taking tests because they can't handle it***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:21 PM



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maybe not.***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:22 PM



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Or they may have tested bad themselves...***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:25 PM



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Re: Actual lab or what...?***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:25 PM [ in reply to Actual lab or what...?*** ]

no, the testing center. But then again everything has been dead here for the last two weeks. All the snow birds left and life is back to normal in my quiet little town.

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Balm has seen the light.***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:26 PM



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Re: Balm has seen the light.***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:29 PM

once it gets in the 90s they self deport and head back to NY or Ohio, or whatever shithole state they are from.


and I am glad you beaver is doing better, it seemed a bit pale before.

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Another great example of that "cost of living" BS....***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:37 PM



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Re: Another great example of that "cost of living" BS....***


Mar 26, 2020, 10:30 PM

well that is no joke. I can get a custom house on the water here for the same price as a cookie cutter home 10 miles outside of DC, NY, Boston, etc...

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Testing is getting restricted and qualified... They're


Mar 26, 2020, 9:33 PM [ in reply to Re: Actual lab or what...?*** ]

probably working some hospital or helping in some lab. Then again, it's a private company. Who really knows???

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You don't know #### about what's goin on. You high AF!***


Mar 26, 2020, 9:40 PM



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Daily report from the SIL... 30-yr. ICU RN... It ain't good.


Mar 26, 2020, 10:11 PM

Two Coors is a long, long, long way from getting me high...

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we spend the most $ in the world on healthcare


Mar 26, 2020, 9:17 PM

and can’t do this basic testing. I’ve never believed we have the best health care in the world, despite all the money we spend. Like everywhere else, health outcomes are usually relative to one’s ability to pay.

A lot of people agree that this is the case, including this guy:

https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1243291839362297856?s=21

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Worst...NO. Most expensive...probably. That dude might


Mar 26, 2020, 9:24 PM

be a little prejudiced, just a little.

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Re: Worst...NO. Most expensive...probably. That dude might


Mar 26, 2020, 9:56 PM

Actually, in a way, it's both.

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Interesting graph but it's not "the world"... Even so, I've


Mar 26, 2020, 10:14 PM

known for a while that the US has been getting the shaft...

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Re: Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 10:14 PM

I realize I'm just one data point but here goes. Co-worker tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. There were four of us working directly with her last week before she went home with symptoms of the flu. We were told to go home an quarantine for the next 14 days. I called my doctor and asked if I could get tested. He said yes. I went to the parking lot at his office Wednesday morning. He came out in full PPE with the test kit. Swabbed the back of my skull (I kid you not; at least 5 to 6 inches into the nasal/sinus passage) and put the swab in the vial. Said he would text me the results tomorrow morning. Got the results this morning, negative for COVID-19,and cleared back to work. From the time I found out I was exposed to back at work just over 48 hours. I live in Austin, TX by the way.

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That's what is confounding about the discrepancy nationwide.


Mar 26, 2020, 10:42 PM

Glad you're okay...Stay well.

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Re: Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 10:15 PM

That doesn’t mean Doctors aren’t treating the patients symptoms, which is the important part. COVID19 symptoms are exactly the same as swine flu in 2010. The difference? ....This flu is being televised.

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NO as far as "the same". The testing is the primary obstacle


Mar 26, 2020, 10:20 PM

to efficient treatment nationwide... It's been an absolute fustercluck.

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Re: Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 10:38 PM

Um. You know that each state has been extending testing out of multiple companies other than Quest. If they haven’t they are negligent. MI has like 6 at this time.

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I can't honestly speak to that. I have no idea about who


Mar 26, 2020, 10:47 PM

they contracted with or tried to... If Quest is that overloaded, they should tell them to seek another lab or something...

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Re: Just so you understand about the CoVid19 testing... and this


Mar 26, 2020, 10:44 PM



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Saw a post earlier that said 6-8 days... I'm sure it varies,


Mar 26, 2020, 10:48 PM

but it shouldn't be varying by such degrees...

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Re: Saw a post earlier that said 6-8 days... I'm sure it varies,


Mar 26, 2020, 10:54 PM



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Re: Saw a post earlier that said 6-8 days... I'm sure it varies,


Mar 26, 2020, 11:05 PM



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The way my SIL relates it, if they have a patient who shows


Mar 26, 2020, 11:07 PM [ in reply to Re: Saw a post earlier that said 6-8 days... I'm sure it varies, ]

possible symptoms, they get tested. However, until they get the test back, the docs/nurses have to obviously treat that patient as a positive for precaution sake. The daily waste of PPEs and the time required in changing out adds up and the more time spent waiting for results is just another isolation and bed.

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Re: The way my SIL relates it, if they have a patient who shows


Mar 26, 2020, 11:10 PM



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Yep, someone I know tested positive and it took a week at least


Mar 27, 2020, 7:36 AM

to get the results back.

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