There's still a serious shortage of testing for COVID-19 in the U.S., despite President Trump insisting the situation is improving. While COVID-19 testing criteria can vary depending on where you live, tests are being rationed in every state.
Betsy Larrabee of Longmont, Colo., said her husband is sick with many symptoms of COVID-19. Their son has leukemia, and yet their doctor said the only thing they could do for now is to isolate at home.
"How is that sound medical advice? Especially with a highly contagious disease, once both parents go down with it," she says."We had no choice but to expose our kids and pray for the best."Idaho's Blaine County, home to the Sun Valley Resort, has reported some of the highest rates of COVID-19 in the United States. A woman there in her 30s was able to get tested. But because she wasn't that sick, her swab was sent to a commercial lab.
"We've never had sufficient test capacity from the beginning of this ordeal," says Abner King, CEO of Syringa Hospital & Clinics in rural northern Idaho. Most of its tests are sent to a commercial lab in California, which has its own backlog to deal with."We have a lot of people that want to get tested and that are upset when the screening criteria says, no, you don't qualify to get tested," King says."They'll literally go to the next hospital down the road and try there, but we're all in the same boat."
King just hopes people in his community who think they might be sick are heeding Idaho's stay-at-home order. That's not of much solace to people such as Michelle Burgess and her family next door in Oregon."They are working so hard," she says."They're in a hard position to have to tell people, no, we can't prescribe you a test right now because there aren't enough.
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