“The thought of it being routinely 10 to 14 days is just not true, and I think it sends a bad public health message that goes against the goals we all have,” Giroir said.
Hey, Giroir! You know what sends a bad public health message? It’s when some goddamned fool in the White House screams out loud “I told them to slow down the testing!”
Giroir added that last week, 45 percent of commercial labs completed tests within three days, and that over the past week, the rate of tests completed within three days was up to 56 percent.
So maths be hard for me but isn’t 56% of tests completed within 3 day at commercial labs like a D+?
Even at 3 days, you’re either going to have progressed to symptoms or infected most of the people you’re going to infect. Do we have an island somewhere for these people?
If you’re trying to perform contact tracing while you’re experiencing exponential increases, three days is an F-.
In Trump logic, fewer tests equals fewer positives. Fewer positives means no pandemic and Trump is a hero. Another problem solved by our president. This is the kind of logic that worked very well in his real estate business.
Reality just isn’t cooperating with the Trump narrative as they would wish. When “Aunt May” just died last week in a visibly overcrowded ward, it is tough to convince the family that everything is OK.
I don’t see how taking longer than a week for results helps anyone, because by the time you have the results the infection/situation could change.
My wife has had next-day PCR results through UT Southwestern twice now (March and July). She’s in the high-risk group though (2-time lung transplant recipient). I’m sure they are doing it through their internal lab and both times it was a pre-requisite for allowing other treatment. So she’s probably an outlier.
At the end of the day it’s a logistics problem that we aren’t putting enough time and resources into. That’s true of a lot of the Covid response, actually (DPA-for-PPE, etc.). Frustrating.
There must be some truth to the Demon Semen theory.
What do you have against toffee bars?
Bad eyesight, apparently… LOL…
a bad public health message
Forget the “message,” Republicans.
How about some honest public health data?
Catch this webinar QA if you can.