Originally Posted by
cesco.g
It's my understanding that two of the largest labs (LabCorp and Quest) on top of others will offer testing by Monday, with over 1 million tests being available and more going forward.
Would that not help to avoid such bottleneck?
Yeah, Pence kept hammering the “commercial labs” message in yesterday’s presser. Did he say what the cost would be? Per my wife/doc, a flu test is around $200 if your insurance doesn’t pay for it (eg, due to annual deductible) . I know some states have made it an essential health benefit, and Medicare/Medicaid are supposedly paying for it, but there appears to still be a lot of uncertainty. And is there a difference between being forced to get tested (all 3400 Princess pax/crew) and random people worried and walking into their pharmacy/lab?
A couple days old:
https://khn.org/news/fact-check-vice...virus-testing/