Whew! Just finished a seven-patient slate of COVID-19 tests.

[Aristus]

Seven in a row.



I know the emergency-care and urgent-care providers have it a lot worse right now. Today is the first time I really felt like I was on the 'front lines'.

My team did a great job of getting the patients evaluated one after the other. Some had acute, non-specific symptoms, for which they were treated. Now we wait for the results...

[JT45242]

1. Timeline question

How long is it taking to get back results from your testing source?

Just curious as to the lag between when tests are given and actual numbers.

[Aristus]

2. About three to four days.

I understand a test is being developed that reduces wait time to forty-five minutes.

I hope the specificity and sensitivity of the tests can be confirmed soon, so we can start using it.

[In_The_Wind]

3. You did say it was going to be a busy day for you.

[Aristus]

4. I was right.

And the afternoon's not going to be a break. The schedule is filling up even as I write this...

[In_The_Wind]

5. Good luck!

Catch ya around the campus.

[irisblue]

6. I saw a military member getting the nasal swab,. You, yourself did them right?

Swab looked to be in nasal cavity~4-5 inches deep, swab itself looked about 8 in long, am I right?

Swab had to go in deep, past the turbinates, to the choana right?

Any gaggers? Cause I would.


Thanks

[Aristus]

7. One of the patients, a young teenage girl, sat for the specimen without flinching.

A guy in his forties squirmed and twisted, and finished with tears in his eyes.

I can attest that it's not a comfortable fifteen or so seconds.