JimInBCS said:
Perhaps in Austin, but evidently not in B/CS, at least not recently.
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3103752
I know two people in Brazos County who got tested within the last 8 days. Thankfully neither had it.
One came down with a fever and because he lives in a retirement community, he was tested within 2 hours. His fever was gone a day later and after a few days of a stuffy nose, he was fine, so likely just a cold. He got his test back very quickly.
The other had all the symptoms, cough, high fever, chest pain, etc. Tested negative and they found out he has bacterial pneumonia. After multiple days on Levaquin he was doing much better, but it almost put him in the hospital. He's not old or at even moderate risk for pneumonia, but since he did have the flu a month ago (tested positive for Influenza A) they think it could be the result of a secondary infection that eventually turned into pneumonia. His test came back within 48 hours.
I can't speak for the policy in Brazos County, but they do test people, especially if they're high risk, or showing the symptoms. They're probably not going to test someone if they only have a slight fever (unless they're high risk) or some nasal congestion as the only symptoms.
All that said, I just heard a call on Broadcastify for a patient who had been to the hospital earlier today and was sent home. Now the patient, as the dispatcher basically said, is showing all of the defining symptoms of coronavirus. No way to know what the person's symptoms were earlier today. Might have just been a 99.5 fever and little if anything else.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
