My state has very stringent criteria that must be met before a suspected case can be tested. We won't have any tests for a couple weeks yet anyway... so all the while who knows how many mild cases we have, infecting others, until we finally have enough test kits to test all suspected cases. This is so backward!

I live in a state that receives many foreign visitors daily. I myself got horribly sick after international travel, and the CDC was called into my exam room. A blood draw and nasal swab specimen were taken, but since my travels were to two foreign countries between China and Hawaii, but not directly to/from China, the nasal swab test was canceled. I have no idea if I had a mild case of covid-19 or not.

If they are only going to test cases that have developed into pneumonia AND have traveled to/from China, or knowingly had contact with a confirmed case, many people will become infected by people who were healthy enough to fight it off before it developed into pneumonia. This is infuriating!

We did have one case this morning where the media made a big deal about a suspected case, and the somehow the state used one of the defective test kits we received to determine immediately results that were negative. But with widely publicized defective test kits, how does this give us any reassurance? This whole thing is so whack!

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