![]() ![]() ![]() So I just self quarantined myself and basically started working from home.” “We stocked up on food items as much as possible. I cannot get myself, like I cannot convince my conscience to leave the house just thinking about that, Hey you went grocery shopping and now like five people died. There’s a senior center.” “Southwest Florida is full of elders. There’s people of every generation coming in there. And I didn’t meet any of that.” “As a nurse in an E.R., it’s pretty vital if I have an infectious disease that I know what it is because I could be spreading it to people who are really vulnerable.” “I actually work in a building that’s a fairly public place. It was, you travel to China or have you been in contact with someone known diagnosed Covid. It was clearly obvious that they just are under capacity, and they’re not able to test.” “I eventually just gave up because, at that point, the testing criteria was so strict. And I called a hospital, and they told me that they don’t have the test either.” “I just felt like I was getting the run-around. I called an urgent care facility and they said that there’s nothing that they can do. So I called the doctor’s office and they told me to go to an urgent care facility. website and it said, call your doctor if you have the symptoms. There’s nothing set up in Delaware.’” “I looked at the C.D.C. And the state of Washington just did not have the capacity to do that, because the government had not supported us at that point essentially.” “I got through to public health after about an hour, and they told me that I did not meet the criteria for being tested.” “They said, ‘There’s no way to get tested. And I’m thinking, That is so not true.” “It was just interesting, because there was this kind of gray area for a while of people who felt like they were really sick and should have been tested just as, even as a rule out. And the tests are beautiful.” “We have a president saying anyone who wants tests can get a test. Not up.” “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. It’s going to be just fine.” “We’re going down, not up. So I don’t know who sat next to me or who I was in contact with.” “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. ![]() They had a confirmed case.” “Four different planes in four different airports. is refusing to test me.” “I traced back, you know, my wife, she works at Amazon. Nobody’s willing to see me, and nobody has the test kit and even C.D.C. And I was just coughing a ton.” “I had a headache and felt feverish.” “It felt like I had a bowling ball on my chest. “It started for me with a pretty severe sore throat.” “I started to feel symptomatic five days after traveling.” “It’s different than the bronchitis that I’ve gotten before.” “Everything had kind of settled in my lungs. But people across the country told us that’s not the case. Residents Scramble to Find Coronavirus Testing Since March 3, the Trump administration has said coronavirus testing is available to all. Transcript ‘Our Lives Are at Stake’: U.S. Here is a recap of what you need to know. “I know, if the tables were turned, other states would be there for us,” he said on Twitter. New York State had reported 4,758 deaths from the virus, compared with 386 in California, as of Tuesday according to The Times’s tracking.Īlong with aggressively preparing for a potential surge in patients, the governor announced on Monday that he was loaning 500 state-owned ventilators to states like New York that are currently experiencing dire equipment shortages. However, there are some signs that California’s early adoption of shelter-at-home policies may be paying off, with hospitals spared from being hit as hard as in New York City, the center of the pandemic. Over the course of a few weeks, stringent social distancing rules have grounded California’s 40 million residents to a halt. ![]()
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