Posted on 03/12/2020 4:26:50 PM PDT by TigerClaws
VANITY post. Please add your own and I hope someone 'in charge' reads this.
A number of my doctor friends are telling me this:
1. Patient A goes to a primary care doctor with flu-like symptoms. Fever, cough, etc. and tests negative for the flu. They had just returned from international travel.
Tells staff to request a coronavirus test. Told "patient doesn't qualify" UNLESS he or she has been to one of the specified countries (Italy, China, Iran) or has been near a specific person that has tested positive.
2. Patient B. Back from a cruise. Flulike symptoms. Not to hot zone or didn't know if they'd been near someone with it. NO TEST.
3. Doctor described navigating the government maze of people to call to request the test as similar to calling the IRS. A nightmare. It's like the folks at the DMV were put in charge of this pandemic.
To be clear: these are ENTRENCHED do-nothing government workers who likely never had to actually lift a finger.
3. Insurance company. Full battery of tests run on the patient EXCEPT insurance won't cover COVID-19 testing because not in one of those counties and with someone verifiably suffering from the virus.
CONCLUSION: Lie to your doctor or they won't test you.
Rep. Katie Porter tweeted that the battery of tests they run costs $1,331 per patient. Is cost the issue?
North Korea is testing 200,000+ people so far. We are under 10,000.
Why?
/rant
10,000 people a week
versus this...
CDC tested only 77 people this week; coronavirus testing slow around the nation
“CONCLUSION: Lie to your doctor or they won’t test you.”
Conclusion: Trump needs to issue some executive orders to cut through this regulatory crap.
What will change with the results of a test? You’ll still have the same symptoms. The treatment won’t change.
Because the CDC screwed the pooch.
They refused to allow any private companies or Universities to develop and market a Covid 19 test. The CDC was going to do it. And they failed spectacularly. They cost us over a month of getting our arms around this disaster and there will be many deaths in the US because of it.
Speaking as a physician who is former ER and currently working part time Urgent Care.
My FIRST patient today was a woman with fever, muscle ache, dry cough, and chest pain with cough. No travel, but so what? cases in 35 states now.
Wanted to test her today, would have. But test still not available in my area of NC.
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and one statistic he mentioned is enough to realize how woefully inadequate #COVID19 testing still is in the US. Today alone South Korea did ~ 10,000 tests, that is more that what the US has done in the last 2 months (5,000 - 8,000)! Really?
That sky sure is falling isn’t it.
The link/source is “Vanity?”
Actually, one thing could change: the likelihood of infecting a bunch of other people with your flu-like symptoms.
Sounds like their problem is state or local.As of a week ago the CDC removed the requirements it had put on local authorities before they could test. Now they can test anyone at anytime with a doctor’s approval. https://www.foxnews.com/health/doctors-can-now-approve-coronavirus-testing-cdc-says
Well. If you know you are infected, they can isolate you, and start tracing contacts so that maybe, I don’t know, we don’t end up with a hundred million infected and crash the hospital system.
They did screw it up.
I would like to seem the disbanded..though I now that will never happen..and they must do some good.
Failure to get testing up and ready has caused a market
crisis and soon it will cause a health crisis.
How many “doctor friends” do you have?
The CDC is doing very little testing now,because they have delegated it to the local level, where the decisions should be made. Colorado and Minnesota already have drive through testing in some areas.
Population of S Korea vs Population of USA?
It’s because we don’t have enough tests yet.
Free drive up testing in Denver.
Here are my thoughts
1) Extensive testing of the populace will overload the system preventing testing of those truly suspect of being infected
2j if the general populous is tested, found to be positive and don’t exhibit severe symptoms the doomsday narrative is ruined.
3) if those found positive recover relatively fast, the doomsday narrative is also ruined.
4) if a large portion of the population is found to be positive and actually develop complications, panic will heighten.
I’m glad some high profile people are confirmed positive. It will be harder to push the doomsday narrative in a few weeks once they recover.
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