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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good. This is about people who don’t understand their demand for convenience and a certain level of service, during a pandemic, is unreasonable. Stop! The medical community is in crisis.

If you need a test, there are lots of ways to get a rapid test at this point. If you need a PCR, go stand in line at a firehouse or curative kiosk like the rest of us do. If your child is healthy, stop dragging them to the pediatrician or the hospital for everything. Just stop.[/quote]

Exactly what I thought when I got this email, after I got over the shock of people seeking convenience testing at Childrens (or their pediatrician) to begin with. [/quote]

well we’ve observed on our many trips (child with severe condition) many people use children’s ER like a PCP.[/quote]

This is something that the poor do.  That's not a judgment.  It's basically because there aren't reliable PCPs in their areas, or they don't have access to one.  This is well-known in public health literature, btw, I'm not just saying this about DC.[/quote]

Absolutely true and not just for child health concerns. But I don’t see how this equates to asymptomatic/convenience testing. Perhaps the issue is not enough information outreach about availability of testing outside of the ER setting.  Someone else suggested shifted hours for free test distribution, which makes sense. [/quote]

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