Covid Testing

[Leeshouldveflanked]

So they are doing testing at the Fairgrounds in New Albany today.... no one is in line at this moment... if there was a shortage of Test, it looks like it would be a line.

 

[Drebin]

So they are doing testing at the Fairgrounds in New Albany today.... no one is in line at this moment... if there was a shortage of Test, it looks like it would be a line.

They did testing at Lewisburg High School about a month ago. There wasn't much of a line then, either, and that was at the height of the panic.

 

[L4Dawg]

You still can't go get one for the most part. You have to be screened and have a legitimate reason. That isn't true in all cases and places, but it is most of the time.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

There's no point in getting tested if you're not sick. If you were sick a while ago and want to know if you had covid, anti body testing could be useful. Anti body testing could be useful to anyone, but overall the hit rates are low outside of hot spots NYC.

 

[RocketDawg]

You still can't go get one for the most part. You have to be screened and have a legitimate reason. That isn't true in all cases and places, but it is most of the time.

Sounds like a reasonable requirement.

 

[msstate7]

I was negative

 

[HotMop]

I took the antibody test, I was negative. Was sick late February after back to back trips to New Orleans and Las Vegas.

 

[ezsoil]

So they are doing testing at the Fairgrounds in New Albany today.... no one is in line at this moment... if there was a shortage of Test, it looks like it would be a line.

In Texas, anyone who wants one can get it...just have to register online and make an appointment...

 

[SheltonChoked]

In Texas, anyone who wants one can get it...just have to register online and make an appointment...

Here you have to have pass a pre screen to get tested.

I assume you could lie on the pre screen, but it's not just drive up and get tested....

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There were several test sites in Desoto County that did not require screening. Lines were still short.

 

[ezsoil]

There were several test sites in Desoto County that did not require screening. Lines were still short.

There isn't any requirement in Texas except you have to identify yourself and make an appointment

 

[SheltonChoked]

There isn't any requirement in Texas except you have to identify yourself and make an appointment

That's not true in Harris County... https://covcheck.hctx.net/ https://www.readyharris.org/Get-Tested

 

[Misfit]

So, in your mind, if there is no shortage of tests in New Albany, there is no shortage anywhere in the country? If we have the abundance of tests that some people are saying we do, why aren't we testing everybody whose job requires close contact with other workers? Best way to keep the meat-packing plants open is to test everybody on a regular basis and isolate the infected. Should have been doing it from the beginning of this mess.

 

[ezsoil]

That's not true in Harris County... https://covcheck.hctx.net/ https://www.readyharris.org/Get-Tested

Well I'd say that list pretty much allows anyone to say they meet one of those criteria.....how you gonna verify whether someone has had diarrhea?

 

[ezsoil]

Here you have to have pass a pre screen to get tested.

I assume you could lie on the pre screen, but it's not just drive up and get tested....

no...they want your information so they can contact trace..that's why you have to register first...that being said...they about to fall under 7% of those being TESTED bing positive

 

[Ozarkdawg]

Same here, whole house sick mid-late Feb. Had a relative go to ER with blood clots 10 days after. Thought it prudent for one of us to get tested. That was me, but got neg results so no one else is being tested.

 

[SheltonChoked]

Well I'd say that list pretty much allows anyone to say they meet one of those criteria.....how you gonna verify whether someone has had diarrhea?

Like I said before, you could lie and get tested. But you still have to be pre screened.... But that was true when the tests were more limited as well.

 

[Villagedawg]

If you don't get tested, you can't test positive.
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[greenbean.sixpack]

Very few people show up to these testing centers. All you have to do is download a CSpire App and complete a few questions and you can easily and quickly test. The test involves a large Q-tip going deep in the nasal cavity, some consider it fairly invasive.

The state/feds are spending a ton of money on these centers and very few people are showing up to get tested.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

i think there was another virus going around back in January and February that also got a lot of people sick with similar type symptoms. lots of viruses happen every year.