Could this be a political tactic to suppress the vote? It seems that we must suppose that we are dealing with criminals in suits whose sole objective is to “Bernie Madoff” us, so they can stay in power. WE already know TOTUS is not wealthy but billions in debt to someone. The miscreant Congressional leader(just another hooker) is in bed with who knows who. The vote is our power to correct this debauchery. MA
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David Rohlfing, a Queens resident and high school English teacher, attended outdoor picnics, an outdoor bar and a Black Lives Matter protest earlier this summer. Though he did not feel sick, he wanted to get tested for COVID-19 before visiting his sister in Connecticut.
On July 6, he was tested at a New York City-run site and was told results could take a week. He checked a patient testing portal every day. On July 23 – 17 days after he took the test – he learned he did not have the disease.
Now Rohlfing wonders whether there will be enough testing when he returns to the classroom in September. He wants a guarantee he can take a test with quick results if he interacts with an infected student or staffer. If there is no such assurance, and testing has not improved, he might not go back to class.
“I’m not going to do it,” he said. “I will join any effort to not open the schools if that part of the piece is not in place.”
The slow turnaround time for patients like Rohlfing could harm efforts to curtail outbreaks. Professional athletes and private businesses that purchase lab testing can get access to quick tests. Teachers, students and others who rely on traditional retail clinics or doctors’ offices, however, might wait days for results.
Federal officials and private labs acknowledge they must prioritize the nation’s limited supply of coronavirus tests for hospitalized patients, health care workers and other high-risk individuals. But many Americans worried about contracting the sometimes deadly virus often must wait in long lines and several days for results.
Without a national plan on how to best allocate hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 tests each day, there simply is not enough capacity now to screen Americans who might unwittingly pass the virus to others.
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And some warn the problem will be further strained when universities and K-12 schools resume classes, more companies bring employees back to the workplace and influenza testing spikes this winter.
Dr. Howard Koh, a professor at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and former Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary during the Obama administration, said the testing shortage has created a pattern of unequal access.
“Some privileged parts of our country are getting daily access and others have no access at all,” Koh said. “We’re never going to solve this pandemic until we give everybody access, particularly high-risk groups. That’s the public health principle we always try to follow.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said testing delays are “totally unacceptable” and need to be fixed.
Speaking at a forum hosted Wednesday by the Harvard public health school , Fauci said in some communities “the gap between the time you get the test and the time you get the result, in some respects, obviates the reason why you did the test … We’ve got to correct that.”
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