The local walk in clinic was packed with people young and old, some wearing surgical masks, all feeling a little woozy.  

The wait to see the Doctor was 2 hours minimum.  His news ominous at best.  He can only test for Coronavirus if a patient has a fever of at least 100.5, a cough and congested lungs.  Otherwise, there can be no testing because at this particular clinic outside Manhattan, Lab Corp only provides 2 Coronavirus tests per day.  TWO a day!

We need more tests, he told me, everyone must demand more tests.  If a patient is tested, results take 5-7 days and the patient must be quarantined during that time and the test could very well turn up negative. 

Doctors still have the ability test for flu.  You wait all of 10 minutes to find out  the results and if they turn up negative, it means you don’t have the flu, but you could still have Coronavirus. 

The Doctor showed me an ad on AliBaba, China’s answer to Amazon, CoronaVirus tests are available for $1.50.   

He suggests if our  government really wants to get on top of this pandemic, someone fly to China and get the tests Americans desperately need.

The doctor who must remain anonymous because he can’t speak for his walk in clinic would like to see drive up clinics in parking lots nationwide where people drive up, get their noses swabbed and like the regular flu test, find out in 10 minutes if they are infected with Coronavirus.  

Short of that, containment areas he observes, don’t do much good if you are allowing people to travel in an out.  A frustrated mother in New Rochelle told me as much this week.  Two of her children were home because their schools were closed, her son goes to school outside the containment area where she also works. So whats the point, she asked, if you’re going to shut down schools, you have to shut down all of them.  

China basically ordered people to say in their homes in provinces where the virus was spreading like wildfire, period.  You can get away with that  in a Communist country.  But the doctor believes it contained the spread of the virus. 

In America, what we can do is demand our leaders cut through the bureaucracy and make  Coronavirus tests available, now and its time for our citizens to demand nothing less.  

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