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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are sticking strictly to CDC criteria it seems.  Sounds like the District's Health Department is keeping an iron grip on who can get tested in DC, meaning they can override a physician's request.

Clinical picture, travel to certain countries or contact with a confirmed case, people in LTCs, or someone really, really sick.[/quote]

But that isn’t the criteria anymore is it? The criteria is supposed to be that anyone with a dr order gets a test, but 1) either there aren’t actually enough test kits even though CDC says they’ve been distributed, or 2) the tests have been distributed (or at least a sizable amount) but lab capacity doesn’t exist to process more than a few tests a day.

I’d like to see that more clearly explained by the press. This administration has obviously totally screwed up, a combo of incompetence and perhaps malfeasance, but I’m curious about the lab capacity piece.

The idea of a coronavirus pandemic has been anticipated for years, so I would have thought lab capacity for testing would have been addressed in various plans that must exist. [/quote]

It's the criteria they are using.

They pretty much said DC Department of Health had to agree on whether someone could be tested.  They explicitly said being in an airport in an affected area was not considered travel to an affected area.

It's really bizarre.  This person would have been refused a test based on their criteria until he was hospitalized although he would have been openly symptomatic for at least a week before that.
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Did they say why they are not using the supposed CDC criteria? Is it because despite the broadened CDC criteria they don’t have the tests, or, like the administration, is DC worried about the economic impact if the case count goes up? I honestly have no idea.

I wonder if this DC guy could have crossed paths with any of the AIPAC attendees. There seems to have been transmission at the conference and I’m sure attendees went to restaurants, stores, outside of the conference hotel. [/quote]

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