Covid Testing

Closed Thread
Thread Tools
  #16  
Old 01-07-2022, 01:06 PM
RobbyHarris RobbyHarris is offline
Member
Join Date: May 2020
Posts: 67
Thanks: 34
Thanked 25 Times in 15 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Babubhat View Post
Buy tests on Amazon, 18 bucks for 2
yes with 2 to 3 weeks delivery by third party sellers
  #17  
Old 01-07-2022, 01:33 PM
Buckeye Bob's Avatar
Buckeye Bob Buckeye Bob is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: St. James
Posts: 154
Thanks: 1,091
Thanked 53 Times in 31 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by JGVillages View Post
The Express.org covid testing site by the Hampton Inn on 466 is not currently taking online appointments. Anyone know of a nearby site that will take online appointments?
There is an urgent care on 466A on the right hand side as you head into Wildwood that is doing the tests without appointments; it's the rapid antigen test. Went there last night and was out within 45 minutes. Unfortunately, I tested positive.
  #18  
Old 01-07-2022, 02:00 PM
billethkid's Avatar
billethkid billethkid is offline
Sage
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 18,537
Thanks: 0
Thanked 4,877 Times in 1,419 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckeye Bob View Post
There is an urgent care on 466A on the right hand side as you head into Wildwood that is doing the tests without appointments; it's the rapid antigen test. Went there last night and was out within 45 minutes. Unfortunately, I tested positive.
Did you go to test because you had symptoms?
How ill do you feel (or not) today?
  #19  
Old 01-07-2022, 06:03 PM
GerryA GerryA is offline
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 7
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Default Buy a covid test

You can buy one at Freedom Plaza drug store. I bought one today for 30.00. I was positive...
  #20  
Old 01-08-2022, 08:04 AM
Lindsyburnsy Lindsyburnsy is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 416
Thanks: 1,500
Thanked 643 Times in 232 Posts
Default

If you test positive, you need to wear a mask and quarantine for 5-10 days, depending on if you show symptoms or not. It's not that difficult, just common sense. It's not a lot different than not going around others when you are sick with a cold.
  #21  
Old 01-08-2022, 10:06 AM
Sedwards45 Sedwards45 is offline
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 7
Thanks: 13
Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by billethkid View Post
Do people test to see if they are positive or confirm they are negative?

And......what do the test results do for their tomorrow?

Rhetorical questions all!

My test result of POSITIVE may have saved my great great niece and nephew from hospitalization or worse! They’re too young for vaccinations. Thought simple cold but to be on safe side took home test. POSITIVE. Self quarantined. Three other tests POSITIVE. 15th day after symptoms, NEGATIVE. Twice vaccinated & booster but still got COVID.
  #22  
Old 01-08-2022, 12:18 PM
cbv0211 cbv0211 is offline
Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Hemingway
Posts: 53
Thanks: 0
Thanked 28 Times in 11 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by JGVillages View Post
The Express.org covid testing site by the Hampton Inn on 466 is not currently taking online appointments. Anyone know of a nearby site that will take online appointments?
We signed up yesterday at the Covid Test Express website and got appointments and a confirmation email.
  #23  
Old 01-08-2022, 01:08 PM
ThirdOfFive ThirdOfFive is offline
Sage
Join Date: Jun 2021
Posts: 3,447
Thanks: 759
Thanked 5,478 Times in 1,854 Posts
Default

Just don't try to get one in Minnesota. The home test kits have been sold out for quite some time, and the result is that the ERs and Urgent Cares are jammed with people who are not sick but are just there to get a COVID test--many, probably multiple times, or anytime they wake up with a scratchy throat or stuffed nose. It is so bad that truly sick people aren't being able to be served and have to be turned away. Media up there is imploring people NOT to go to those places for tests.

Isn't it grand, what panic will do to people?
  #24  
Old 01-08-2022, 02:23 PM
JMintzer JMintzer is offline
Sage
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Where Eagles Dare to Soar...
Posts: 11,825
Thanks: 484
Thanked 8,908 Times in 4,669 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sedwards45 View Post
My test result of POSITIVE may have saved my great great niece and nephew from hospitalization or worse! They’re too young for vaccinations. Thought simple cold but to be on safe side took home test. POSITIVE. Self quarantined. Three other tests POSITIVE. 15th day after symptoms, NEGATIVE. Twice vaccinated & booster but still got COVID.
Kids won't end up in hospitals (or even worse...)
  #25  
Old 01-08-2022, 03:49 PM
Dotneko Dotneko is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Nov 2020
Posts: 559
Thanks: 1,931
Thanked 827 Times in 278 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindsyburnsy View Post
Why were over 800,000 + COVID testing kits not distributed and left in storage to expire?
You know they expired in September and were not distributed due to lack of demand?
They received a 90 day waiver of the expiration date. Again, lack of demand caused them to stay where they were. Just someone trying to revive a dead campaign. Nothing nefarious.
  #26  
Old 01-08-2022, 07:50 PM
JMintzer JMintzer is offline
Sage
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Where Eagles Dare to Soar...
Posts: 11,825
Thanks: 484
Thanked 8,908 Times in 4,669 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dotneko View Post
You know they expired in September and were not distributed due to lack of demand?
They received a 90 day waiver of the expiration date. Again, lack of demand caused them to stay where they were. Just someone trying to revive a dead campaign. Nothing nefarious.
Thank you for answering my question and confirming my suspicions...
Closed Thread

Tags
covid, online, site, appointments, testing


You are viewing a new design of the TOTV site. Click here to revert to the old version.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:49 PM.