Late February closed several weeks before the outbreak crown down American cities, up to the level of a national crisis, Kerri Rawson began to feel ill. “I was out of nowhere to hit what feels like the flu at first,” said Rawson, who also has asthma and takes heart medication for hypertension. “Are you all right, and then all of a sudden you have a fever below 100 ° F and chest congestion.” Rawson is a writer of 41 years and mother of two in Florida. (You may recognize his name from his memoir in 2019 to grow as the daughter of a serial killer.) The fever lasted for 11 days, during which their children developed well above normal temperatures. The son fever rose to 102 ° C, but tapers in a few days; his daughter, but it is a barking cough that Rawson had never heard before. A doctor diagnosed the 11-year-old with bronchitis. “That’s when my first conversation started COVID-19,” said Rawson. On 6 March, still struggling with a fever and chest congestion, she asked her doctor if she had contracted crown. He was skeptical. (There was at that time less than 10 cases reported in Florida.) “He asked me questions about travel and contacts,” said Rawson. “He said, ‘Our hands are basically tied [US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] CDC. We can not test. Call the health department of the state, call the local one.” Rawson did, but was told that only the tests were compared with those of the administration who had traveled internationally, had been in contact with someone who has, or who were in critical condition, none of which we describe. During the following week, the conditions of Rawson deteriorated. His blood pressure rose, her heart rate was high, and she began to have trouble breathing. Rawson has seen a family doctor. “I just kind of collapsed on their table,” he says, and I told the doctor that she was concerned, it could be COVID-19. The doctor sent her to the emergency room. “I was basically in hypertensive crisis by the time I got to the emergency room,” says Rawson. She was rushed to a hospital in Altamonte Springs, FL, and in a room on an observation plane with a sign on the door willing nurses required to take precautions such as gloves and surgical masks required. The doctors tested for “anything under the sun,” she says, but not COVID-19 E ‘was noticed almost two weeks from Rawson first symptoms, and she had not been tested for the sadly common virus-a story in the early weeks of pandemic, as US officials the most widely used tests available for sick Americans failed to do. Response pandemic of Florida, especially the skinny funding for state and county health officials and cuts affect research funding for investigation Tampa Bay Times, as well as Governor Ron DeSantis slowness of a stay-at-home to give . On March 12, Rawson received a CT scan. When doctors saw the results, “freaked out,” he says. She was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. Most concerningly scan of the lungs Rawson “touch” cloudiness anomalies found in the lungs, which appear as gray spots, glass-like earth frequently COVID-19 patients. “When they saw the appearance of frosted glass in rags, have contacted infectious diseases, and this is when it all hit the fan,” says Rawson. “On Friday morning, the nurse in barrels comes all throws my things on my bed. They throw a sheet over me. They put me in the hallway to wipe my bed, put a mask on me and me rushing through a few floors up the air entrapment space equal to zero “. Finally, on March 13, after prescribed based on a progressive care and two different antibiotics is moved to an isolation room, Rawson receive the nasal swab test and throat for COVID-19 Six hours later, the test came back negative. Rawson believes that it was a false negative, and that the test was not administered properly. “I ended up having a very bad nosebleeds with my own, and swabs were blood,” said Rawson. “[A nurse] said to the emergency room that could have influenced the test.” (We have the hospital reaches out Advent Health Altamonte Springs, for an opinion in response to the claims of Rawson in this article. The hospital did not provide an on-the-record comment.) Soon, she was thrown out of space isolation and moved back to earth observation. “It ‘finished with me evict like 1:00 because they need it for someone else,” he says. “And the night sister did not really COVID [patients] to be together. It was not really have anything like that. I had, like, my drive around the mute IV pole and collect all my things when I was very sick” . Rawson was told that the room was for other alleged COVID-19 patients required. On March 14, went home, where they are fighting for a week a difficult recovery from pneumonia, suffer from neurological problems and sleep deprivation- “It ‘was terrible,” said Rawson. They ended up back in the emergency room a week later, when even a fever. By mid-April he had not fully recovered. leads reason to be skeptical test Rawson experience with the virus assuming that this was really COVID-19 was extreme, but his experience is not evidence of unusual. The diagnostic nasal swab test, small traces of DNA using a laboratory technique is known as the reaction of the PCR or polymerase chain, amplify comprises from afar infallible. A prepress products from China appreciates the false negative rate of up to 30% to be. In practice, this number would mean “if you 100 people, who had COVID-19, 30 of them a negative result would still take the test,” said Dr. Catherine Carver, PhD student in the Population Health Sciences at the Institute Usher, University of Edinburgh. It would also mean that thousands of Americans have the test results to get them to say that they do not have the virus, if they really do. “This is a serious problem because it could create false reassurance for the people get the false negative result that they are not good and infect other people,” says Carver. In early April he grew a Yale doctor alarmed and wrote a New York Times editorial urging patients who have symptoms crown, but negative test must assume that they are positive. Based on anecdotal evidence from medical colleagues, he noted that such situations are “often uncomfortable.” So far, there is little reliable research in total COVID-19 test performance. But it is dangerous to put too much trust in the judgment of the tests, says Dr. Colin West, a physician and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. “The management control of this pandemic is going to be a very important part,” West says. “But we must understand that the tests are not perfect. No test is perfect. And if there is a certain percentage of false negative results that can be expected, we must be careful and not celebrate too early, if we get a test result comes back negative. ” West is the co-author of a recent article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings cautioned against excessive reliance COVID-19 tests. Although the test is accurate to 90%, in the document, “the extent of the danger of false test results will be tested significantly the number of people grows.” (Assuming that 5 million people are tested,., Could mean the 500,000 false results) this does not mean that the evidence is not an essential element of the nation’s pandemic or that the administration’s failure on this front is to say a little less than an outrage . At the population level, mass distribute tests to contain the crisis is essential. It means that patients and providers alike need to resist the temptation of reference test results as gospel. There are several reasons that can provide accurate test results. The first is that a nasopharyngeal swab is not only easy. “It requires properly doing pretty deep buffer in the nose and throat of sending” West says. “There was concern that in some cases, not cutting again and again, as deep as they should be. The nose is rather that wiped the back of the throat.” Another possibility is that, depending on the patient who has the timing virus, may not have to make in sufficient quantity for the sample was positive. “It turns out that the viral load and the PCR test performance actually fall after a certain number of days of the symptom,” West says. “So if you wait too long, you might get a false negative. But if you do it too soon, you could be a false negative condition as well, because there is not enough viral material.” During the public test run is been a priority, experts say more research in terms of test reliability should be. “Physicians and patients need to know to have as much confidence in these tests so they can afford the patient care the right decisions or safely return to work,” says Dr. Carver, who co-authored a recent supporting paper that’s enough, it is not to judge exactly COVID-19 of the test precision data. Emotionally, a negative test because patients crown even more stress and uncertainty suspicion. “It ‘an absolute hell it was,” says Eva, a company based in Los Angeles music producer who tested negative in mid-March sick twice, and prefers to keep his name confidential for security reasons. “I have two doctors tell me that I probably do not COVID, and some say that probably I did. I mad doctor calling friends and went to ask for help, or do I think cancer is a blood clot or something kind. “Meanwhile, returned from the doctor away, Kerri Rawson still do not know for sure if COVID-19 has had. What it does know is that the false negative possible has made it difficult for her to receive medical care needs. On March 22, Rawson returned to the emergency room with heart problems. Until then, the epidemic had risen to the level of a national emergency. The hospital was now display a more intense protocol for the patient’s symptoms, says Rawson, “If you score a COVID can not undergo triage. Send you basically back to zero airspace and triaged like you. “(This type of air conditioning system insulation space” has had, which was not attacked in larger hospital, “said Rawson.) Rawson for the virus was tested a second time. Around then, says Rawson, a nurse told her that the hospital staff, as had been upgraded to handle the pad since their last test. “They told me they had before a ton of false negative results as two weeks, when I was there,” said Rawson. “And now they are supposed to hold three seconds pad and what you do not do first.” According to the story of Rawson, the nurses and patients who have been previously tested on a single plane, receives a negative result, then a positive result in another test plan. Rawson also means that the hospital had instituted a new policy: If someone has been tested due COVID-19 symptoms and the test was negative, would be re-tested 24 hours later. Rawson was told to wait for the results of the second test in two weeks. It has been over a month. They never received. This became a problem when he advised his family doctor to follow up with a pulmonologist, given his asthma condition. He tried to make an appointment. “I said I was in the hospital with what doctors said was very clinically COVID significantly,” says Rawson. The Office demanded proof that Rawson had or ever COVID-19 has, or had gone. He suggested a virtual date, but the office had to organize a policy against Tele appointments with new patients. “I have to basically find a new pulmonologist if I need one,” he says. Unless they can not provide a negative test result according to “have refused outright to me.” Seeing Rawson plans if their doctor may order an antibody test, which is designed to show whether the patient built immunity to the virus. (Such tests can not entirely reliable.) Did you feel supported by the coverage of the Palm Beach Post suggesting that COVID-19 infected hundreds of Florida residents have already in January or February, long before the State accepted its first suspected cases , Meanwhile, government attempts were to control the outbreak of a massive residual test hindered, could include the second round Rawson. By the end of April, Rawson was largely recovered, but still felt a certain weariness. His lungs were weak. He could not form a staircase to stop for breath. She has no idea if they ever get the results of their second buffer. “I’m assuming he sent her away,” he says. “I do not have any records who committed it.” Picture of Skaman306 copyright-Getty Images
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