Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyExtacy View Post
In colorado, you still cannot go to a hospital and get a test unless you are considered high risk, or part if a community outbreak. If you ste neither and test negative for the flu, the Dr basically tells you he is sure you have it, and to go home and quarantined. If you become sick enough to be hospitalized, then they will give you a test.

Testing around the country is a joke due to not enough tests. Apparently were saving those tests to use on 99% people who will test negative so they can play a game.
Looks like Colorado is taking the approach to prioritize testing for vulnerable populations and those working with vulnerable populations: https://covid19.colorado.gov/covid-1...g-for-covid-19

They claim that "Whether or not you are diagnosed with COVID-19, if you don’t need to be hospitalized, your treatment will be the same, no matter the test result. " I guess that means anyone at all with a fever or cough has to quarantine for at least 14 day whether they test positive or not. I guess if that's how they want to do it that's up to the Colorado Department of Health but I've seen articles from Florida, Illinois, and Texas talking about how decreased demand is shutting down test sites in those states along with the St Paul Pioneer Press article last week that said Minnesota had the capacity for 10k tests per day but only had demand for about 4k.

I don't think the Colorado approach is necessarily wrong unless they're letting test kits collect dust. If they have excess tests I hope they're using them to test nursing home residents and essential workers or just identifying some population samples to test in order to try to gauge the number of current asymptomatic carriers out there. I would agree that earmarking tests for professional athletes at the expense of the causes listed above is not the right thing to do.