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[quote=Anonymous]To pp’s who said you can get  tested now: not in dc. They’re still demanding proof of exposure to someone who has tested positive and/or the combination of all of these: travel to China (not even Italy) in the last couple of weeks + high fever, and according to one dc doh official I spoke with, respiratory distress. We just left our doctor after being there all morning. We were just out of state  3 weeks ago with known exposure. Couldn’t get tested because “14 day had passed.” So there’s also time frame restrictions.  Yes, we’re symptomatic (of course). Without more tests, the angels of our health care system are scared to risk wasting a single one. That means no testing, basically. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating,  the doctors are doing their best, and they have no ability to do what they would do for any other disease that is testable: test.

He told us if we were residents of another state we might fare slightly better. This is horrific, and dc seems even more horrific than other places. We are flying completely blind.

I’m appalled by those who say this doesn’t matter anyway. For my own sanity, I’m trying to tell myself that we’re all operating in different stages of grief, moment to moment. Clearly many are still in the first stage. [/quote]

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