Let's Get Real
 

Let's get real !! We are the largest community in the US with an average age of 67. We have approximately 132,000 residents and the largest concentration of veterans. Now can someone, anyone explain why we have no regular testing for the virus. The only one that
I know of is conducted by a private Medical faciliity. We have a bunch of elected officials visiting and bragging about our low percents of infected. Now how is that possible to know if you have not tested? No ones knows our numbers and it is an insult to us to pretend they do.:ohdear:

Please contact your county commissioners, the governor, your state senator and your state representative. Get the ball rolling!

A simple Google search.... but I guess bitching on TOTV is easier.

AdventHealth Centra Care Leesburg
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Leesburg, FL · 7.8 mi

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Venetian Gardens Park
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UF Health Leesburg Hospital Urgent Care
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Leesburg, FL · 9.4 mi

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Lake-Sumter State College
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AdventHealth Centra Care Mount Dora
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Premier Medical Associates
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Ocala, FL · 21.0 mi

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Instructions: Testing is scheduled after a tele-visit with a doctor, call (352) 561-3182. Patients stay in their cars next to tents in the parking lot. Must be 18 and older.
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CareSpot Urgent Care of Ocala
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Cooper Memorial Library (Curbside Pickup Only)
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Clermont, FL · 29.4 mi

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AdventHealth Centra Care Clermont
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Clermont, FL · 30.2 mi

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AdventHealth Centra Care Winter Garden
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CareSpot Urgent Care of Ocoee
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Carespot-Apopka
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Apopka, FL · 36.2 mi

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AdventHealth Centra Care Altamonte Springs
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Altamonte Mall
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CareSpot Urgent Care of Altamonte Springs
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Don't know but in the historic section which houses the oldest community of the Villages seem to be doing fine from what I can see. People going out with Golf Carts all over the place here, only thing short is not allowing them to do their normal activities safely…
Did it ever occurred to you that these elected officials just might be correct ‘bragging about our low percentage of infected elderly we here in the Villages’….

Do you read your own posts????? Where is the Villages????

I found just one for The Villages .......... Premier Medical, and you need permission from a doctor and an appointment. . I would have thought our own hospital could have a drive through facility. I heard Gov. Cuomo say just yesterday that they have drive through testing everywhere across NY State, in fact they have more tests than people wanting tests!

Come on Gov. De Santis, bring us drive through testing. You cannot open a State without full testing.

I have a friend that has a pulmonary condition. She went for her regular checkup. They offered her testing for not only virus testing but also antibody testing if she wanted it. I have a feeling that people at risk have been offered the testing for a while. If you are not at risk, have been using precaution, and showing no symptoms, why would you need testing.

Testing non-symptomatic people is insane. They get tested, then stop at the store on the way home and get it. Now they get a negative result and in fact, are now spreading it all over. A revolving door of door of people thinking they are safe and just spreading it all over the place.

Wide open testing sites all around us. Hop in the car and you could probably be at a site within 30 minutes in any direction. "The Villages" owes us nothing but free golf, and lots of spring flowers. They certainly have no medical obligation.

You can't drive that short distance to Leesburg? Oh silly me, we are The Villages and are entitled to have what ever we wish.

Can't take a golf cart to Leesburg......:). Also our hospital and the one in Leesburg) is the University of Florda's Hospital, doesn't belong to The Villages.

Get tested now an hour later you can still get the virus, what your going to do get tested again?...
If you feel you have one of the Corona Virus-19 symptoms get tested if not no need to get tested... Period!

They want a mobile testing van to pull up to their doorstep.

What a waste of electrons.

People should realize by now that a negative test means you were negative AT THE TIME OF THE TEST. A negative result does not mean you will always be negative. People at The White House are testing every day. Why? Because they can come in contact with the virus at any time after the negative test was done. Then one day.....bam. A positive result after being negative for weeks. It has already happened. Most folks who keep up with current events are aware of this.

Well, here we go again. If you can't get there by golf cart, then it doesn't exist.

Nah, this is why.

“And don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing.”
“When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

There's a 14-day incubation period. During that 14 day period you could test positive, without having any symptoms yet. Knowing in advance that you DO have the virus, can help you prepare, AND can be your notification that it's time to self-quarantine so you don't give it to anyone else.

A negative result won't offer this, I understand. But a positive result can possibly save your life, and the lives of everyone around you.

Assuming you have enough faith in your immune system....that is the only thing available today to fight the virus. Could be the longest 14 days of your life.

A woman just posted on The Villages Talk Facebook that she got an antibodies test done on Saturday at the new pharmacy at Freedom Plaza. That's the new shopping center west of the new Brownwood Hotel on 44. She said it was $30, she didn't need an appointment. I asked why she got the test, and she said she is in a high risk group and hadn't been feeling well lately, her test was negative.

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Making sure you have aspirin or other fever-reducing product at home. Making sure your doctor and the hospital know that you have the virus. Making sure anyone living with you is aware that you test positive and also get tested if they haven't already. If people living with you test negative, creating an "isolation" room for yourself or for them, to prevent them from getting infected, or making arrangements for one or both of you to spend the next few weeks somewhere else.

There are ways to REDUCE the risk of death if you test positive. Yes your own ability to fight it off is important, crucial even. But if the hospital knows that you might become an "incoming COVID-19" patient if your symptoms get bad enough, they might be better able to handle you, than if you show up without notice to the ER.

Probably because many of us have no interest in being tested.

If we wanted to be tested, I bet we can find a place to do it.

What is so hard to understand? If you get tested at 10:00AM and get infected at 2:00 PM your test is going to be negative. You'll be walking around all fat, dumb and happy that you tested negative, but that won't be true because you are infected. For testing to have any benefit is if you are tested daily.

Except many of these antibody tests that are being pushed by drug stores were bought BEFORE the CDC required they first be approved and are very inaccurate. For her benefit she might want to check the efficacy of her specific test if that is possible. Besides, if "she hadn't been feeling well lately" an antibody test could be useless as it's primarily for AFTER you have recovered to see if you have the antibodies and not while you still aren't feeling well. The pharmacies are going to prosper off this from those who don't understand.

From CDC: Antibody blood tests, also called antibody tests, check your blood by looking for antibodies, which show if you had a previous infection with the virus. Depending on when someone was infected and the timing of the test, the test may not find antibodies in someone with a current COVID-19 infection.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
There's a 14-day incubation period. During that 14 day period you could test positive, without having any symptoms yet. Knowing in advance that you DO have the virus, can help you prepare, AND can be your notification that it's time to self-quarantine so you don't give it to anyone else.

A negative result won't offer this, I understand. But a positive result can possibly save your life, and the lives of everyone around you.

Read what Orange Blossum posted. What if you feel mildly sick, not bad enough to call a doctor, but just to be sure, you get a test, and test positive. Then you isolate, cancel your plans to party at Cody's that evening, and don't infect a dozen other people. A free no-hassle virus test seems quite worthwhile and valuable to public health, doesn't it?

If you test POSITIVE you will know that you need to prepare for potential symptoms, AND you'll know that you need to isolate yourself from your family/friends for a couple of weeks AND you'll know you'll need to stay home from work if you work, AND you'll know you have to cancel your appointment with the eye doctor and reschedule AND you'll know - a whole lot of things -

all things you won't know you need to do, if you don't get tested at all.

You are totally correct OBB

If you do not have symptoms why go to a testing centre?
A lot of people with symptoms maybe waiting for a test!
Do the testers change all their protective clothing after each test?

If you get tested for the virus, and test positive, you can isolate for the 14 days or more assuming you develop symptoms.

If you test negative for the virus, that means you do not have it at the time of the test. How many days will you wait before you go and get tested again, "just in case you pick it up."

With symptoms, test makes sense; without symptoms test for virus makes less sense unless you are testing for antibodies, or you know you have recently been around a person who is/was tested positive.

Again a negative test for antibodies only means you are negative at the time of the test. Positive means you were exposed, but does not prove immunity--at least yet.

I had labs done for a regular follow-up and asked the lab tech at my doctor's office if she could also get me an antibody test. She said she could do it if the doctor ordered it, but he was not in that day.

Great response Viking jr.

I don't get the testing craze?
 

If I test you today and not tomorrow then I still don't know if you have the virus. The knowledge may be valuable from a scientific or analytics experiment but as an individual it means little.

Check the history for Typhoid Mary.

It is relevant to this discussion.

I am EXPOSED to this virus, I would imagine, every single day. I spend much of the day wondering if I will, at some point, get symptoms. Working retail in the front of the store means I'm exposed to people not wearing masks who refuse to social distance, going the wrong way down one-way aisle so their breath is within sneeze-distance to my eyes. It means I am helping people in those scooter-buggies who are coughing because they've been sick with "oh just a cold" for a week, who refuse to wear a mask. I'm exposed to co-workers who might call out sick tomorrow and have been hiding their sickness out of fear of losing their income.

I have no idea what sickness these people have, but the risk of it being COVID-19 is pretty significant.

Because I have no symptoms, I *could* be an asymptomatic carrier. For all anyone knows, any one, or two, or three or more employees of "essential jobs" that deal with the public, could be the next Typhoid Mary.

For that reason, it'd be nice to be able to test once a week. As I harp on in every post about these things - it's all about risk reduction. Not risk elimination.

Simple Question no Answer
 

When I posted my "Lets get real" the point was simple. What PERCENTAGE of the Village residents TESTED positive for the Virus vs population? That would identify the REAL risks involved and the need for or not for tight controls. Those who found all sorts of excuses for that not being available but go to another area for their percentages is exactly what I was pointing out. I don't give a rats behind what the percentage is for Leesburg or State College, etc as they have a totally different profiles from the Villages.
To test any response you are about to give just provide what the percentage is for the risk of the virus in The Villages based on regular testing within the confines of the Villages by broad available testing facilities dedicated to The Villages. Let me save you time as that does not exist and has not existed. To pretend it does is a cruel joke to those who, based on bad input run out and celebrate a position that is statistically inaccurate. :ohdear:

Think it's funny when the testing was being done at the Polo field there wasn't an over abundance of people that went. Then the comments waste of time people going that don't need it blah blah blah. That was a well organized drive thru one of the smoothest things I've ever seen run in TV. Yes I went and was tested was put into the research side no I did not have it but I had piece of mind as I had been to New Orleans on a Cruise for Fat Tuesday talk about crowds. If you want to get tested you can, yes you may have to drive a bit to get there but what else do we have to do. If nothing else you can say you did it.

The benefit of frequent testing is to find those people who are positive. Once a positive result is obtained, then that person should not go out in public at all, AKA self quarantine. This type of testing needs to be done on a very regular basis for mitigating this virus. It is impossible to achieve that degree of testing for the entire population.

The better and much easier way to mitigate this virus is for everyone to wear masks when social distancing is not guaranteed (grocery stores, pharmacies, retail stores, etc). Then, the asymptomatic or presymptomatic carriers of the virus will not spread the disease unknowingly.

I read an article which I posted in the medical forum of TOTV, that said if 80% of the world's population wore masks when social distancing is not guaranteed, this virus infection rate would plummet.

If that was the point of your original post, then why did you not ask that specific question?

Anyway, I doubt anyone understands your question, so I guess it doesn't matter if you ask it or not.

Mayo Clinic
 

Just got back from a regular visit to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Their routine was first they take your temp, then they ask a series of relevant questions regarding the virus, then you must have a mask on anytime you are there and if you don't have one they will provide you with one. Then you receive a "sticker" with that day you are there and you can have one visitor only and they must go through the same procedures and you can't change your visitor. They only have one patient with the virus. That seems to be a good basis for minimizing the spread of the terrible virus. They also have regular testing. As you drive on to the property there are signs to turn into a specific road to get tested. Anyone can make that turn on the property. They will test you and you will get the results in about a day. The test includes a probe up your nose and it can be a little painful? Just as an aside, testing is not only to identify the people who may have the virus BUT to also identify how much the virus has spread and the degree of inclusion into a specific area. The negative responses for statistical purposes are to establish a methology to attack the spread in certain areas and is as important as the positive responses. :ho: