Relax -- drive through Coronavirus testing coming on line QUICKLY

[Mountainmanbob]

In Virus Hot Spot, Lining Up and Anxious at Drive-in Test Center

 

[OldWiseGuy]

We can't just test once. We must be monitored constantly, which means frequent testing of everyone.

 

[Mountainmanbob]

We can't just test once. We must be monitored constantly, which means frequent testing of everyone.

I think only needed if fever is present?
M

 

[hedrick]

I think only needed if fever is present?
M

There are still rules on who can get tested. It depends upon location, and is changing. I don’t think fever alone is enough.

 

[ZNP]

You don't need a fever to get tested. All you need is money. For example the NBA players and other very wealthy people. This entire testing thing is like the Titanic where all of us in steerage were locked below to drown.

 

[ZNP]

The United States, whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea’s, is not even close to meeting demand for testing. About 60,000 tests have been run by public and private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.

As a result, U.S. officials don’t fully grasp how many Americans have been infected and where they are concentrated - crucial to containment efforts. While more than 7,000 U.S. cases had been identified as of Wednesday, as many as 96 million people could be infected in coming months, and 480,000 could die, according to a projection prepared for the American Hospital Association by Dr. James Lawler, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

“You cannot fight what you cannot see,” said Roger Klein, a former laboratory medical director at the Cleveland Clinic and previously an adviser to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on clinical laboratory issues.