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Walgreens Covid Testing is a Joke

Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:47 pm
Posted by BulldogXero
Member since Oct 2011
9758 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:47 pm
I was exposed to someone who was recently diagnosed with Covid19. I'm not experiencing any symptoms, but I thought I'd get tested so that I can isolate if the test comes back positive.

I sign up for the drive thru testing at my local Walgreens. They email me a confirmation number which I print out as per their instructions which say to pull up to the window with your window closed and hold the confirmation number up to the closed window and await further instructions.

I do as instructed when I get there, and the lady at the window has no clue what I'm doing. She says she doesn't know what the confirmation number is for. I roll my window down and explain that I'm here for my scheduled Covid test. She disappears for 5 minutes and the pharmacist comes to the window. The first question I'm asked is if I will be in town for awhile. I explain that I live here. I'm told that they don't have my information in their system (what information? They never even asked for my name?). I told them I had a confirmation number. They changed their story and said their system was down and to call back in about one hour.

I dunno, I got the idea that these people had never done a test for anyone as hard as that was to believe, and lost all confidence in the idea of getting a test done from there.

At this point, I think I'll wait until I start showing symptoms.

Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120154 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:48 pm to
quote:

I'm not experiencing any symptoms, but I thought I'd get tested so that I can isolate if the test comes back positive.


Dumb
Posted by TDsngumbo
Alpha Silverfox
Member since Oct 2011
41509 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:49 pm to
Just find an urgent care location that offers the rapid test and go there. You'll have results in 15 minutes, which is enough time for your eyes to stop involuntarily crying after having your brain tickled.
Posted by MaHittaMaHitta
Member since May 2014
3181 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:49 pm to
You probably went to the wrong Walgreens
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41156 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:49 pm to
Go to CVS
Posted by TDsngumbo
Alpha Silverfox
Member since Oct 2011
41509 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:50 pm to
quote:

quote:
I'm not experiencing any symptoms, but I thought I'd get tested so that I can isolate if the test comes back positive.


Dumb

No, that's not dumb. That's responsible. What if he is around others in his family with serious health issues? He needs to know if he has it.
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 1:50 pm
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:50 pm to
quote:

I'm not experiencing any symptoms, but I thought I'd get tested


Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65648 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:50 pm to
i've seen the folks who work at walgreens, this is no surprise.
Posted by BulldogXero
Member since Oct 2011
9758 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

Just find an urgent care location that offers the rapid test and go there. You'll have results in 15 minutes, which is enough time for your eyes to stop involuntarily crying after having your brain tickled.


Well I don't want to get Covid by waiting to get testing for Covid in an Urgent Care
Posted by BobABooey
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2004
14230 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

I think I'll wait until I start showing symptoms.

Do this. The odds of spreading the COVID when you don’t have any symptoms is extremely low.

The tests aren’t reliable anyway.
Posted by castorinho
13623 posts
Member since Nov 2010
82010 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:52 pm to
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their instructions which say to pull up to the window with your window closed
pull up for da spicy COVID
Posted by TDsngumbo
Alpha Silverfox
Member since Oct 2011
41509 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:53 pm to
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The tests aren’t reliable anyway.

My kid had to get tested on Wednesday and his pediatrician told me the test (which was negative) is 90% accurate.
quote:

The odds of spreading the COVID when you don’t have any symptoms is extremely low.

Well if you say so, I guess we gotta trust you BobABooey on matters of public health.
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20011 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:56 pm to
I was exposed to an older gent for about 30 mins and he died 3 days later due to COVID. At the time I visited him (30 mins) the family said he was negative. I waited 11 days with not symptoms but decided to get tested. Negatory. Maybe I lucked out or the death due to COVID was BS.
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51228 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 1:58 pm to
Your state's health department isn't running any testing sites?
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
53705 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:01 pm to
quote:

i've seen the folks who work at walgreens, this is no surprise.


This isn’t directed at you Morbid, because I see it all the time. We bitch when the lower intellects leech off the government, and we also bitch when they get jobs and we have to deal with them. Guilty of it myself.
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10179 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:01 pm to
I get tested once a week just because I like to get my brain stem tickled.
Posted by LSUGUMBO
Shreveport, LA
Member since Sep 2005
8486 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:03 pm to
Wife got a test at Walgreen’s last week, and it was definitely a joke, or we’re being played by all other medical professionals. They gave her a swab and said insert it a half inch up your nostril and swab 4-5 times, then do the same to the other nostril. A Half inch? What about the brain tickler test?
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65648 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:03 pm to
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we also bitch when they get jobs and we have to deal with them


it's one thing dealing with them to get a 2 piece with fries.

it's entirely different trusting them to administer a test regarding your health.
This post was edited on 1/18/21 at 2:40 pm
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
34934 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:04 pm to
quote:

I'm not experiencing any symptoms, but I thought I'd get tested so that I can isolate if the test comes back positive.


Loser.
Posted by Buzzed
#1 NIC
Member since Nov 2020
623 posts
Posted on 1/18/21 at 2:06 pm to
I wouldn’t get tested even with symptoms.
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