All healthcare provider organizations and their respective healthcare providers are not employees or agents of Walgreens or any Walgreens subsidiary or affiliate company. All healthcare services are provided solely by independent healthcare provider organization listed, according to the particular organization’s own policies and terms. All healthcare organizations listed in the Find Care tool have contracted with Walgreens to be listed on these webpages and to display information that they have provided about their services. "I think this is a temporary problem, the frustrating thing is, it came at a time when testing is most critical," he said.Walgreens Find Care allows certain healthcare providers that have contracted with Walgreens to advertise and provide information to consumers about their respective healthcare services. Swartzberg believes we will see that happen in the coming weeks and tests will become easier to access. Many test providers, as well as local and state governments, have said they are committed to ramping up testing capacity. "Each person is going to have to make their own decision about that." "From my perspective, if someone can’t get a rapid test, the party would be canceled," he added. He also holds a strict policy for only allowing guests who've tested negative with a rapid test.
"So you really need to go into isolation until you can come out because there’s been enough time, or you’ve had a negative test,” he explained.įor Swartzberg, his strategy includes not allowing anyone over to his home who has symptoms suggestive of COVID like a scratchy throat or a runny nose. Swartzberg says you should assume you have it. If you have symptoms that match COVID-19, Dr. But the reality for many is that they might not be able to find a test in that time frame. For those exposed to COVID-19, the CDC says if you've been boosted should wear a mask for ten days after exposure and if you haven't been boosted the CDC recommends quarantine for five days followed by strict mask use for another five days.įor anyone who has been exposed to COVID-19, the CDC says the best practice is to get a COVID-19 test five days after your exposure. For people who test positive for COVID-19, the CDC recommends isolating for five days and "if they are asymptomatic or their symptoms are resolving (without fever for 24 hours)", then follow that five days by wearing a mask around others. So what should you do if you have to wait for a COVID-19 test?Ĭontinue to follow the CDC guidance on isolation and quarantine (which has recently been updated).
"For the next two weeks, because I think this is going to be a really critical period, I am going to be incredibly careful," he explained. With the Omicron variant spreading so quickly right now, Swartzberg is not sure if he will be able to see his son - he's not comfortable visiting with anyone outside his household without taking rapid tests beforehand. The soonest available appointment she could find was nine days later.Ģ arrested after brawl in San Rafael, police say She told her doctor about it and tried to sign up for PCR a test through her healthcare provider as her doctor requested. 6 at the San Jose location.Įmily in San Francisco told NBC Bay Area she tested positive for COVID-19 at home using a rapid test. On Friday, for example, the earliest available test appointments through Sant Clara County were on Jan.
CVS noted there has been a "recent surge in demand" at-home COVID-19 tests and said it has added a limit of six test kits per purchase.Īppointments for PCR COVID-19 tests (which take one to three days to return results) are also running short. A growing rate of Californians are testing positive for COVID-19 with the state reporting a seven-day average positivity rate of 15.9% on Friday.įor weeks, at-home rapid tests have been difficult to find in Bay Area drug stores.
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in California and across the country, many people are clamoring to get a COVID-19 test.
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