Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine responded to critics who say there are holes in the state's plan to test all residents and staff at nursing homes: 'The plan is an evolution.'
on some weaknesses in the current guidance: that it calls for voluntary compliance; recommends full testing only at facilities with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases; and excludes long-term care facilities that aren't nursing homes.Morning Edition
:"The plan is an evolution, and we're going to be working with each facility to make sure that the testing gets accomplished."When do you think you'll be able to say,"All right, we have at least once tested every person in a long-term care facility and every employee in a long-term care facility." How far out are we looking?
It'll probably take at least several weeks or a month to test everyone in those facilities, and we are rolling that out as we speak. Because a viral test is not conclusive, for if you're negative on one day, you could be positive several days later, all of the facilities will need to have a regular schedule in terms of their testing. But that schedule will need to be individualized. But as you've pointed out, this is quite a project.
Does the state of Pennsylvania right now assume that if every long-term care facility, every nursing home resident and employee was to ask for a test today, could you get everyone a test today? No, not in one day. First of all, that would challenge our testing capacity. And it would be logistically almost impossible to accomplish. But it has been really challenging to get the testing capacity available. There have been challenges in terms of getting the reagents and the chemicals and even the swabs and the viral media to be able to do that.
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