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Subject: Testing covid.
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sensible 28.04.20 - 09:46pm
We now have testing facilities in tents in our town but only for essential workers upto now. It's not just a walk in thing either, you have to book online or the employer does it for you. Is it happening in your area too? * +

gt_tdi 28.04.20 - 09:54pm
Yeah, there's one set up in the college car park, near the hospital. * +

alanball 28.04.20 - 10:16pm
In some mad logic the husband of a nurse with no symptoms whatsoever can book a test but if someone not related to a key worker has symptoms they can't get a test until they no longer can cope and need to be admitted to hospital. Another case of fudging figures. Whole thing stinks * +

recurve16 28.04.20 - 10:20pm
I hope lockdown doesn't last too much longer, cos you ain't gonna hack it.

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mikeymk 28.04.20 - 10:45pm
Yes I've been offered a drive-thru test through work, but I can't have one because there's no road-legal motor vehicle in my household at the moment.

I don't see the appeal. I so much as sneeze and I'm straight outta here on full pay anyway. * +

alanball 28.04.20 - 10:48pm

@ recurve16 - 28.04.20 - 10:20pm
I hope lockdown doesn't last too much longer, cos you ain't gonna hack it.

@ alanball - 28.04.20 - 10:16pm
In some mad logic the husband of a nurse with no symptoms whatsoever can book a test but if someone not related to a key worker has symptoms they can't get a test until they no longer can cope and need to be admitted to hospital. Another case of fudging figures. Whole thing stinks

If the nurses husband has no symptoms then they cant get tested so thats another lie. * +

dan27notts 28.04.20 - 11:01pm
Who can be tested

Our priority is testing patients to inform their clinical diagnosis. In addition, we are now also testing:

all those working on the frontline in health and social care (with or without symptoms)
patients in the NHS and residents in care homes (with or without symptoms)
all other essential workers with symptoms
anyone over 65 with symptoms
anyone who goes into work because they cannot work from home (for example, construction workers) and has symptoms
anyone who has symptoms and lives with someone who meets any of the above criteria * +