For some people, getting a positive coronavirus test could mean loss of income or other life disruptions. Doctors worry about growing disincentives to test and how this could prolong the pandemic:
A person swabs their nose as they receive testing for both rapid antigen and PCR COVID-19 tests at a Reliant Health Services testing site in Hawthorne, Calif., on Jan. 18.
Nevertheless, at the first sign of sniffles and sore throat two weeks ago, San Martin, who identifies as nonbinary, sent a text to warn co-workers, missed work, and found someone with a car to drive them to get tested. But after the diagnosis was confirmed, the manager of the salon where they worked fired San Martin.
Nundy, who treats mostly low-income patients at a federally funded clinic in Arlington, Va., says many of them ask:"Hey, can you test me? But can you test me, you know, [with] the rapid tests so that it's not part of my record?" More people want to avoid testing, especially if they might be infectious but don't feel symptoms, saysan emergency room physician at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at Parnassus.
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