How can we be sure our kids are safe at school when there is no federal guidance, or resources adequately distributed with regards to testing.?

We can’t be sure, so we need to stay home.  The government needs to fund the CDC  and Federal and Government test centers across the US.

There should be testing buses- like RED CROSS blood donation buses in every neghborhood in the US.. there are not.

My son and I were tested this week.  Within our health care plan we called his Doctors office in one city- and my doctors office in another city-  both ate from the same plan.  Both have different answers.  First one referred us to the government testing hotline which directed us to a website to sign up for a test.   Then, when we insisted that we were a patient they referred us to an urgent care clinic.  The clinic had someone outside swabbing people in their cars but.. only one car was in line.. the rest of us were waiting inside the clinic to be approved so that we could get back in our cars and be safely tested!  What if we were all positive!?! Why couldn’t all of us just drive through, and be tested?

Neither my son nor I could get tested at that clinic so we went to one in my city, LA, that my doctor referred us to.  They swabbed us both, and we were fine within an hour.  But...  they told us we may have to wait up to 7 days for the results not the 72 hours they promised in the phone.

HOW IS THIS AT ALL FUNCTIONAL?

IT IS NOT.

WE NEED LEADERSHIP.  And THIS NEEDS FIXING WITH A NATIONAL PLANNED RESPONSE FOr ALL 50 STATES.  Federally funded.

THIS.  Is.  A matter of national security as well.

Heres an excerpt from the TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE which echoes the disastrous state of testing in our country.

FROM THE ARTICLE LINKED TO THUS POST::

“A graduate student in Florida waited 11 days. Positive. A 14-year-old in California waited 24 days. Negative. A writer in New York has waited for four days—and is still waiting. 

As the United States struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the country are using Twitter to announce the arrival of their virus test results. The point of these tweets is not just to broadcast the result itself, but to point out the absurdity of receiving a result so stale that it’s almost completely useless from a public health standpoint. 

Social media posts from July and August make clear a frustrating reality: some Americans are getting their results in mere hours, while others are waiting days, even weeks. To illustrate the problem, TIME set out to create a map showing average test result wait times across the country. What we found instead was that wait times are not just a product of geography, but also of a messy, disparate system of labs and agencies all grappling with supply shortages, logistical challenges, and a lack of federal guidance. “