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The US lags just about every developed country on testing for Covid-19 disease.[0] ‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coro

by vngzs 7y ago

The US lags just about every developed country on testing for Covid-19 disease.[0] ‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response[1] [0]: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/co... [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

buboard 7y ago
as a non-US person, the US can do much more than testing, (which is what most other countries can do). A cure, or a quick vaccine is what matters, testing is just a measure of how bad you are performing. Containment measures are necessary, and they work, but eventually we ll all get the virus, in a vaccine or not
makomk 7y ago
The person described in that Vox article - upper respiratory symptoms, no direct contact with someone with confirmed Covid-19 - wouldn't meet the criteria for testing anywhere that I know of off-hand. Certainly not in the UK or Australia, probably not in South Korea (though they allow people who don't qualify to buy testing out of pocket), not in a whole bunch of EU states, and Italy has much bigger things to worry about. Maybe in the more urban parts of China?
- agency 7y ago
  You can't have contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19 if nobody is being tested for Covid-19.
  - sovnade 7y ago
    The community spread by this point has hit the entire US surely. They can't track every single confirmed person location-by-location because it's been far too long.
  - paulmd 7y ago
    That's some COVID, that COVID-22.
- willyt 7y ago
  You are wrong about South Korea. Their testing has been incredibly effective from the beginning, patient 31 in South Korea had no known contact and was told to take a CV test by her doctors, but didn't take the advice until a 2 days later. https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
  - makomk 7y ago
    Patient 31 was told to take a test despite not meeting the criteria because her doctors had a hunch, as I understand it.
- aesteral 7y ago
  For what it is worth, I've got checked for COVID-19 in Hong Kong with just cough and nothing else - no fever, no sore throat, no travel history and no contacts. The test was fully covered by my healthcare plan and I've paid zero money out of pocket.
- xtracto 7y ago
  In my country, you get tested even if you haven't had direct contact with confirmed COVID19, but have the symptoms and have travelled to selected countries or states in the last 4 weeks.

by vngzs 7y ago

buboard 7y ago

as a non-US person, the US can do much more than testing, (which is what most other countries can do). A cure, or a quick vaccine is what matters, testing is just a measure of how bad you are performing. Containment measures are necessary, and they work, but eventually we ll all get the virus, in a vaccine or not

makomk 7y ago

The person described in that Vox article - upper respiratory symptoms, no direct contact with someone with confirmed Covid-19 - wouldn't meet the criteria for testing anywhere that I know of off-hand. Certainly not in the UK or Australia, probably not in South Korea (though they allow people who don't qualify to buy testing out of pocket), not in a whole bunch of EU states, and Italy has much bigger things to worry about. Maybe in the more urban parts of China?

agency 7y ago
You can't have contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19 if nobody is being tested for Covid-19.
- sovnade 7y ago
  The community spread by this point has hit the entire US surely. They can't track every single confirmed person location-by-location because it's been far too long.
- paulmd 7y ago
  That's some COVID, that COVID-22.
willyt 7y ago
You are wrong about South Korea. Their testing has been incredibly effective from the beginning, patient 31 in South Korea had no known contact and was told to take a CV test by her doctors, but didn't take the advice until a 2 days later. https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
- makomk 7y ago
  Patient 31 was told to take a test despite not meeting the criteria because her doctors had a hunch, as I understand it.
aesteral 7y ago
For what it is worth, I've got checked for COVID-19 in Hong Kong with just cough and nothing else - no fever, no sore throat, no travel history and no contacts. The test was fully covered by my healthcare plan and I've paid zero money out of pocket.
xtracto 7y ago
In my country, you get tested even if you haven't had direct contact with confirmed COVID19, but have the symptoms and have travelled to selected countries or states in the last 4 weeks.