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> Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is. This is not US-only. Here in Austria there are very
by aufav36 7y ago
> Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is.
This is not US-only. Here in Austria there are very strict rules on whom to test, and age is a big factor as well as having symptoms or not. Local authorities do decide on a case-by-case basis, and getting a test if you are not showing symptoms is really hard.
But on the other hand by taking these measures they try to not overwhelm the testing-labs, as they struggle to keep up with the demand for tests and want to keep the reporting-time as low as possible. A couple of days ago test results came back the next day, now (Saturday) they seem to slip to 3 days or more.
So restricting who get's a test and who doesn't seems like a good idea to begin with.
- beeforpork 7y agoHow did South Korea manage to ramp up the testing so quickly? They did a vast amount of tests, and test results constantly came back quickly. What is needed to do the same?