High Risk/Low Risk: COVID 19 edition

As mentioned before, I work for the Florida Legislature and we just ended our 60 day session two weeks ago. During session, thousands of ppl travel up from all of Florida and add in the thousands of lobbyist and probably one thousand staff ( EOG, Cabinet and Legislative staff) ...it’s a Petri dish of communicable gunk being passed around.

I came home with a “wet cough” and congestion/ i never went to get tested because i assumed it was the Tallahassee crud - also i never had the fever (but i never checked it ) and didn’t have shortness of breath. Since being home, I have infected my family with everyone with at least the cough - two of my children have had a low grade fever for a few days.

Fast forward to Thursday, my wife was just feeling punky- we assumed it was the margaritas from Wednesday night but yesterday she was in bed pretty much the whole day- she has a tickle in the back of her throat that makes her cough a lot, she has a low grade fever, she has a tightness around her chest as she breathes, she gets lightheaded if she stands up....i contacted my friend in DoH to her tested - his first question was if she had Dr orders- then what her symptoms were- then suggested we get to an urgent care/ ER to get orders.

It was 9pm last night and we just didn’t want to wake up our children so we opted for the telehealth (basically FaceTime in their app )experience.

My wife spoke to the provider and gave her the story written above, and the provider said she was low risk because she hadn’t travelled (weird because we have seen community spread happening here) nor been in contact with someone who had the virus. Plus she is younger and relatively healthy....she says if the fever continues through till Sunday, she will revisit testing- also weird bc, by the time testing happens and diagnosis, she will be a full week with this two week virus and ...then we all will have to be on lockdown for two weeks even though we prolly already had it


So when you hear ppl say that testing is easy- do know, it’s pretty difficult getting one done and it’s probably this way by design due to the lack of tests