The COVID-19 pandemic

[ijmorlan]

My money is on your paperwork being lost, it happens.

Was there a good reason for you to be tested though? Just wondering.

That was also my suspicion. Again, it would never happen to someone in a car, they are in line, not easy to ignore, like someone sitting in a corner is.

And yes, my daughter has a serious cold, and ticks many of the COVID symptom boxes (fever, cough, congestion). So she needs a test for a number of reasons, most frustratingly, to see our doctor. At this point, given the pandemic, having a family doctor with a toddler is basically useless, there is virtually no time when they will see her, unless she has a test, she has a runny nose most of the time. So if she is sick, my choices are emerge or keep her home and hope for the best. A doctors visit will take a minimum of 48 hours (booking a test, test processing, and booking a Dr. appointment) and a serious illness will usually resolve in that time period, or progress enough that we need emerge. And given that my doctor is only available 4 days a week, they basically will not see us for an acute illness. As a new parent, I find this extremely stressful.

FWIW, our doctor will do flu shots, and we plan on going, but I am going to pre-emptively book a COVID test because given how frequently my daughter is sick, I'd like more than a 50/50 chance of actually getting a flu shot.

Well, I would say that being abandoned like that is unacceptable. How necessary the specific test in question was is completely irrelevant (to the extent that I think the question should not have been asked). Anybody running an operation where people come in and wait for service is responsible for running it so that it reliably processes everybody. Not necessarily quickly, in the event demand is high, but fairly and without forgetting anybody.

Nobody is likely to die waiting for a Covid test but people dying waiting for ER attention has been in the news so it’s not just about a slight inconvenience.