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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Many people here have given up on getting tested. There was an article posted this morning,
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:29 PM
Aug 2020

but everyone has said the same thing for three weeks. Nobody wants to wait in 105 degree temperatures for six or eight hours to get tested (or turned away when they close or run out of tests). And there were reports of people in the Phoenix area coming the night before and camping out to get tested and still having to wait hours. And they know even if they get tested, it will take ten days to get the results.

My brother in law's mother has all the symptoms, and was just tested and they told her "ten days" for her results. (She's in her eighties, is in a long term health care facility and suffers from debilitating dementia and has other risk factors--still, ten days!)

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