-I was just listening to the press conference
of the White House right now, and Mike Pence was like,
"We have made so much progress on testing."
-More and more tests are being performed every day.
-Where are they?
Where are they?
-Excuse me.
The Health Department and CDC said
I did not meet the criteria.
I'm a healthcare worker.
I got sick after care of a man that was diagnosed
with severe respiratory distress with no known reason.
The test they swabbed me for two days ago
is being sent off now,
and they said it should be back on Friday.
It seems like this congestion has gotten worse.
They had to stop the nebulizer treatments
because they're not good with COVID-19.
Nine days, and I'm sicker than when I came in.
I haven't been in the hospital
with COPD and bronchitis in six years,
but when I go in the hospital, even for an asthma attack,
the first course of treatment is nebulizers.
They can't give them to me because they don't have
an available negative-pressure room.
If they would've just done the test,
I would probably already be home,
my family would be back at work,
and I might could possibly be back at work.
-I called the county health department of San Luis Obispo,
was given, like, a total runaround.
No answers.
I finally spoke to my doctor's office and was told
that they are getting a limited number of testing --
they don't know many -- on Friday.
I just spoke with my doctor's office.
I was supposed to go in and get screened to have a test at 3:00.
I thought it was a test, but it was just a screening,
and because my fever
isn't as high as their criteria right now,
they're not gonna give me a test.
So there's that.
Guess it's not happening.
-There's, like, all these ripple effects happening
that I feel both responsible
for and not responsible for at the same time.
My roommates have had to make hard decisions
about whether or not they're gonna go into work
based on the potential diagnosis,
and they have ultimately decided not to.
They're all self-quarantining.
-So I actually thought that I would get tested
because I was in close contact with him.
They couldn't test me for COVID
because I wasn't an elderly person,
and so she said it's safe to assume that I have COVID.
-You know, I went through this entire, like, existential crisis
of, like, feeling guilty about getting a test
because I didn't feel like I was sick enough
because I wasn't an inpatient in the hospital,
and that's just not how it should operate.
If you're sick, you should be able to get a test
to see what's going on,
you know, a test that should be widely available.
-My feet warmers.
Sophia. Sophia, say hello.
I still am cranky, but I've got all my medicines right there.
With COPD and bronchitis,
the longer you go without breathing treatments,
the more that crap packs up in your lungs.
Now it's gonna take me twice as long to get well.
As a healthcare worker,
I should've been tested right off the bat
because if they would've tested me on Monday,
got the results back in a couple of days,
I could've been home by Wednesday.
11 days.
11 days they tied up hospital resources, my family.
I have 10 people that were out of work.
The only way they're gonna shut it down
is to get those tests available to see who's got it
and who's don't.