kdawg
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I am still completely baffled by the USs lack of testing - I mean, I get it, as little Donny said often the more you test the worse it looks but I'm getting really fed up with people saying "oh, it's just a cold..." - when they have no clue.
At work (when I'll be back there after next week anyway) we have a new low threshold for any respiratory symptoms - and they get put back a couple of weeks unless it's sight threatening disease - then we have a pathway for that. I had a guy last week who answered yes to a couple of the screening questions - he'd had a cough for a few weeks. I asked if he'd had a test and he said yes - a month ago when he was going on vacation. Makes me mumble bad words.
And that's around here where there is free NHS testing all over the place and they hand out free rapid tests basically everywhere - in the US you have the added complication of tests being hard to get and/or expensive.
At work (when I'll be back there after next week anyway) we have a new low threshold for any respiratory symptoms - and they get put back a couple of weeks unless it's sight threatening disease - then we have a pathway for that. I had a guy last week who answered yes to a couple of the screening questions - he'd had a cough for a few weeks. I asked if he'd had a test and he said yes - a month ago when he was going on vacation. Makes me mumble bad words.
And that's around here where there is free NHS testing all over the place and they hand out free rapid tests basically everywhere - in the US you have the added complication of tests being hard to get and/or expensive.