DC: First COVID-19 Case Confirmed

[Anonymous]

Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

We don't have tests because the Federal government didn't plan ahead months ago when this started. They wanted to develop their own test. Now, we don't have testing capabilities. So, people are walking around infected instead of staying inside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

We don't have tests because the Federal government didn't plan ahead months ago when this started. They wanted to develop their own test. Now, we don't have testing capabilities. So, people are walking around infected instead of staying inside.

But supposedly we have the ability to test 50/day. I realize that's laughable, but we're not even doing that. As of Friday DC has run only 9 tests. total. Presumably a few more this weekend given the Georgetown reverend and his family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Call the mayor's office"

PP again, sorry that was meant to be a question- "Call the mayor's office?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

Use LabCorp or Quest instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why all the China posts on the DC thread?

I haven't made any such post, but I have to say that many posters, and many public officials at all levels of government and schools, don't seem to know enough about what happened in China, which is keeping them from understanding the magnitude of the problem and from adequately preparing.

[Anonymous]

DC mayor says federal government needs "to step it up" on coronavirus response

From CNN's Paul LeBlanc

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the federal government needs to “step it up” in their response to the novel coronavirus.

Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room,” Bowser said DC specifically needed assistance from the federal government with “how we procure supplies that support the testing that our public health labs are doing.”

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-09-20-intl-hnk/index.html

[Anonymous]

Spouse told by his doctor today that he couldn’t be tested even if the doctor wanted to (primary care doc is also an infectious disease specialist). Travel last week and the week before, albeit not out of the country. Fever, dry cough, and malaise symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

Use LabCorp or Quest instead?

Has anyone actually had a test completed by them yet? Doctors aren't getting permission to test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before but what is the most efficient way to start pressuring DC to actually start testing and expand testing guidelines. Call the mayor's office"

Use LabCorp or Quest instead?

Has anyone actually had a test completed by them yet? Doctors aren't getting permission to test.

This is a question I have. If Labcorp and Quest are authorized to do the test, do doctors still have to get permission of the Department of Health to request the test? It seems that at least in the District, doctors have to go through the DOH. Bowser said today the District needs more federal help on testing.

And yet at her press conference on Saturday her health person gave the DOH's criteria, which were extremely strict.

[Anonymous]

Just updated the DC numbers:

Data From the DC Public Health Lab Last Update: March 9, 2020 at 9:45 pm

Number of patients under investigation for COVID-19: 23
Number of negative results: 17
Number of pending results: 2
Number of presumptive positive results: 4
Number of presumptive positive results from other lab: 1

[Anonymous]

I just saw local Fox News say there are 3 new DC cases ...

[Anonymous]

39 year old male--attended Christ Church

77 year old male. Attended Biogen.

79 year old male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:39 year old male--attended Christ Church

77 year old male. Attended Biogen.

79 year old male.

Oh no...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:39 year old male--attended Christ Church

77 year old male. Attended Biogen.

79 year old male.

Oh no...

What?