In Miami, we are only able to be tested at the ER. The emergency room is already inundated with patients with non-emergency cases because of our fucked for-profit medical care system in this country. And now they won’t give someone the vaccine unless they are HIV positive and/or immunocompromised. So the result is people don’t go get tested because why spend $600 on an ER visit + several hours in a waiting room to be told something that there is not really a drug for you to take, something that disappears on its own anyway, something that isn’t life threatening to you. The count is at 200 officially but it’s got to be exponentially more simply because no one is going to get tested. And I can’t help but think that’s *exactly* why they only let ERs do the sampling and send to testing facility.
In Miami, we are only able to be tested at the ER. The emergency room is already inundated with patients with non-emergency cases because of our fucked for-profit medical care system in this country. And now they won’t give someone the vaccine unless they are HIV positive and/or immunocompromised. So the result is people don’t go get tested because why spend $600 on an ER visit + several hours in a waiting room to be told something that there is not really a drug for you to take, something that disappears on its own anyway, something that isn’t life threatening to you. The count is at 200 officially but it’s got to be exponentially more simply because no one is going to get tested. And I can’t help but think that’s *exactly* why they only let ERs do the sampling and send to testing facility.