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global1

(25,270 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:25 PM Mar 2020

If One Goes To The Doctor's Office To Request Virus Testing.....

and they test positive - doesn't the Doctors Office become contaminated and needs to be quarantined until sanitized somehow.

Hospitals might be able to control for such testing and set aside areas for testing.

Most Doctor's offices are small facilities and the best that they can offer is maybe sanitizing solutions and masks. How can a Doctor's office control such testing and not get contaminated?

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If One Goes To The Doctor's Office To Request Virus Testing..... (Original Post) global1 Mar 2020 OP

It unlikely a doctor (outside a large medical facility) has a test. Agschmid Mar 2020 #1

Phone lines will be jammed customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #6

Azar corrected himself during the presser. CALL your Doctors office. underpants Mar 2020 #2

Weather permitting OneBlueDotBama Mar 2020 #3

They don't have test kits. Don't show up at a doc office if could be infected. Claritie Pixie Mar 2020 #4

If you suspect covid-19 infection, do NOT proceed to doctor's office at140 Mar 2020 #5

You don't go to the doctor's office to SharonClark Mar 2020 #7

Vanderbilt has set up a hotline for patients, fwiw Lars39 Mar 2020 #10

Testing is reserved for people who need to be hospitalized at this time. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2020 #8

Walk in clinics would seem to be a disaster waiting to happen. Glimmer of Hope Mar 2020 #9

Clinics are referring potential cases straight to the ER pecosbob Mar 2020 #11

Colorado is setting up drive-thru test centers blaze Mar 2020 #12

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

1. It unlikely a doctor (outside a large medical facility) has a test.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:26 PM

Mar 2020

ETA: Don’t just go, call first.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

6. Phone lines will be jammed

Reply to Agschmid (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:54 PM

Mar 2020

Believe me, my handle tells you that I know what I'm talking about. When a crisis hits, it takes hours to get through on the phone, and then you spend the first five minutes getting chewed out why it took so much time to get to you.

underpants

(182,883 posts)

2. Azar corrected himself during the presser. CALL your Doctors office.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:27 PM

Mar 2020

OneBlueDotBama

(1,385 posts)

3. Weather permitting

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:28 PM

Mar 2020

take to info over the phone, have the patient drive to the entrance, Nurse, with protective attire, takes nasal swab... drive thru, even better, have the patient watch a video of how to swab, let them do it.