[akiddoc]

This information comes from https://khn.org/news/a-view-from-the-fro...19-battle/ dated yesterday.
"Stanford pathologist Benjamin Pinsky built an in-house test that has been approved for use by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Since March 3, Stanford has used it to test more than 500 patients, 12% of whom had tested positive as of Tuesday."
Stanford was saying they were ramping up to do 1000 per day. I suspect the number is as low as it is because the guidelines say don't test unless someone has symptoms etc. Yet the article seems to suggest capacity to test is an issue. These two things don't go together. Further, Quest in SLO can supposedly also do 1000 test per day. As of right now, it doesn't seem to me that testing as such is the issue. It may be the logistics of collecting the samples and reporting the results isn't up to the capacity of the testing labs???

I was told that Stanford started getting so many samples that they could not process them as fast as they came in this week. There was also a brief time where they didn't have anyone to put the results into the computer. Which is why my test took 54 hours to come in. My results still aren't showing in my health. My internist had to get them to enter the result into my Stanford chart, at which point he was able to get into the EHR and see it. 

We're not throwing away our N95's unless we have a definite exposure. I'm rotating 5 masks - one per day. I figure most viruses are dead after a week of sitting around in a plastic bag.

[akiddoc]

This information comes from https://khn.org/news/a-view-from-the-fro...19-battle/ dated yesterday.
"Stanford pathologist Benjamin Pinsky built an in-house test that has been approved for use by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Since March 3, Stanford has used it to test more than 500 patients, 12% of whom had tested positive as of Tuesday."
Stanford was saying they were ramping up to do 1000 per day. I suspect the number is as low as it is because the guidelines say don't test unless someone has symptoms etc. Yet the article seems to suggest capacity to test is an issue. These two things don't go together. Further, Quest in SLO can supposedly also do 1000 test per day. As of right now, it doesn't seem to me that testing as such is the issue. It may be the logistics of collecting the samples and reporting the results isn't up to the capacity of the testing labs???

I was told that Stanford started getting so many samples that they could not process them as fast as they came in this week. There was also a brief time where they didn't have anyone to put the results into the computer. Which is why my test took 54 hours to come in. My results still aren't showing in my health. My internist had to get them to enter the result into my Stanford chart, at which point he was able to get into the EHR and see it. 

We're not throwing away our N95's unless we have a definite exposure. I'm rotating 5 masks - one per day. I figure most viruses are dead after a week of sitting around in a plastic bag.