'Totally unacceptable': Testing delays force labs to prioritize COVID-19 tests for some, not others
David Rohlfing, a Queens resident and high school English teacher, attended outdoor picnics, an outdoor bar and a Black Lives Matter protest earlier this summer. Though he did not feel sick, he wanted to get tested for COVID-19 before visiting his sister in Connecticut.
On July 6, he was tested at a New York City-run site and was told results could take a week. He checked a patient testing portal every day. On July 23 – 17 days after he took the test – he learned he did not have the disease.
Now Rohlfing wonders whether there will be enough testing when he returns to the classroom in September. He wants a guarantee he can take a test with quick results if he interacts with an infected student or staffer. If there is no such assurance, and testing has not improved, he might not go back to class.
“I’m not going to do it,” he said. “I will join any effort to not open the schools if that part of the piece is not in place.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/totally-unacceptable-testing-delays-force-130013059.html
Six months this has been going on and we still have hold ups in testing.
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