Anonymous wrote:PP whose husband has been symptomatic: per his internist, who is an infectious disease specialist, he cannot get a test because he has not traveled to a known hot spot. He has taken two trips to other locations (one outside continental US) in the past two weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Would they test if someone had contact with a parishioner from Christ Church?

In a perfect world with unlimited tests, maybe. Here I think they would be tier 3, unless they had symptoms.

Tier 1 - People with direct contact with the rector.
Tier 2 - People in the congregation.
Tier 3 - People with contact to parishioners

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would they test if someone had contact with a parishioner from Christ Church?

In a perfect world with unlimited tests, maybe. Here I think they would be tier 3, unless they had symptoms.

Tier 1 - People with direct contact with the rector.
Tier 2 - People in the congregation.
Tier 3 - People with contact to parishioners

Anonymous wrote:Would they test if someone had contact with a parishioner from Christ Church?

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Anonymous wrote:

So can the ER just do the swab and send it to labcorp, or do they have to still get approval from the health department? The CDC was the bottleneck because they messed up the test kits, so had to impose really strict standards for testing. Are they imposing these standards on outside labs? It would seem they should ease the restrictions now that private labs are stepping in to pick up the slack for the CDC.

In my ER, we still need approval from the Health Deparment to test. We aren’t providing orders for ER patients to get tested at LabCorp either.

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Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that has a health center. I asked them last Friday, 3/6 what would you do if someone came in and asked for the test.

He said that the VA Dept of Public Health only had 50 tests for the whole state - yes 50!! So the bar had to be really high for the health center to request and get a test. I am hoping the number of tests available in the state has increased since Friday.

LabCorp now has testing. They won't do the actual swabbing, but they will test the sample. Like when the doctor's office does the swab for strep and sends it off for testing.

Anonymous wrote:

So can the ER just do the swab and send it to labcorp, or do they have to still get approval from the health department? The CDC was the bottleneck because they messed up the test kits, so had to impose really strict standards for testing. Are they imposing these standards on outside labs? It would seem they should ease the restrictions now that private labs are stepping in to pick up the slack for the CDC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a place that has a health center. I asked them last Friday, 3/6 what would you do if someone came in and asked for the test.

He said that the VA Dept of Public Health only had 50 tests for the whole state - yes 50!! So the bar had to be really high for the health center to request and get a test. I am hoping the number of tests available in the state has increased since Friday.

LabCorp now has testing. They won't do the actual swabbing, but they will test the sample. Like when the doctor's office does the swab for strep and sends it off for testing.

Yes, but they are only accepting samples from hospitals, not from a doctor's office.

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Numbers don?t indefinitely trend upwards. China has barely any new cases, and South Korea now also seeing a decline.

China has been battling this virus with massive quarantines and lockdowns since January. Thank God their numbers are trending down, finally.

As they get their cities back to work (I don't think they are reopening schools yet) we have to hope all their new measures will continue to keep spread low. That means we have a chance.

South Korea after their initial explosion of cases due to the cult is doing a heroic job of testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine. They've also canceled schools nationwide.

This article is about a week old and information changes quickly but it details what S Korea has been doing to control spread. If the US could implement these measures we might also have a chance to slow things down:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-koreas-drastic-measures-coronavirus-offers-glimpse-us/story?id=69383034

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Numbers don?t indefinitely trend upwards. China has barely any new cases, and South Korea now also seeing a decline.