MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) – As the coronavirus continues to plague across the country, controls have struggled to track, leaving patients and civil servants in the dark. A CBS 58 survey indicates that slow verification effects cause a chain reaction of problems.
The ranks at Wisconsin National Guard checkpoints in Milwaukee have been a familiar scene for months, but the ranks there don’t matter as much as the rows of check processing labs.
“Testing is an essential component of our ability to the COVID-19 epidemic,” said Amanda Simanek, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He said that a positive check initiates all kinds of processes. Contact search, self-isolation, just knowing where the virus is. He said speed was the key.
“Twenty-four hours is ideal,” Simanek said.
But getting the effects of coronavirus temporarily turned out to be a national challenge.
“Wait up to seven days or more before you know it’s positive,” Simanek said, meaning other people can continue to spread the disease if they don’t think they’re positive, don’t feel healthy, and stick to their daily routine. . Training
“When we start talking about a week or more, it almost makes the check useless,” Simanek said.
Viewers who responded to CBS 58 Investigates on Facebook experienced a check response time.
“Fourteen days after being at CVS in Pewaukee,” said one commentator.
“Three days in the UMOS National Guard,” another said.
“On July 23, he tried CVS in Waukesha and is still waiting,” a third said. (The comment written on August 4).
A wisconsin Department of Health Services spokesman told CBS 58 Investigations that the average time to test at state-run sites is one to three days. But the spokesman said response times for national site reference labs, such as CVS, Walgreens or Walmart, were significantly slower. One of those national laboratories, Quest Diagnostics, stated that the average response time was two to 3 days, compared to the previous five days in August.
“There has been great progress, unfortunately, the desire exceeds our ability to support us,” said Jeff Pothof, Director of Quality at UW Health.
He said that with so much evidence still needed, the chains remain vulnerable.
“Because the virus is developing so well in the United States, there is a common call for testing,” Pothof said.
This has had an effect on local verification. Advocate Aurora Health consolidated 12 of its network verification sites in two in early August due to a lack of verification supplies.
“Some providers are being diverted,” said Jeff Bahr, general manager of Aurora Medical Group.
Bahr said he’s not surprised that the federal government continues to bring supplies.
“As the occurrence of COVID-19 has increased and decreased, our need for express materials has increased and decreased in proportion to this,” Bahr said.
Without the end of the pandemic in sight, Simanek said we might feel we were living at the beginning of the crisis.
“It’s disappointing that we feel in this position again and request test-related disorders,” Simanek said.
The grouped checking account can be just one way to extend check supplies. An organization check combines samples from other people into a bachelor check. However, experts warn that with so many diseases still here in Wisconsin, grouped checks are likely to waste more checks than they save.
Wisconsin trusted a Madison company to supply key control materials to state labs. State fitness officials said it worked, but they still had to convince the federal government to avoid diverting Wisconsin materials.