A friend had a coronavirus scare recently.

Her ex husband was in China for a month (he’s a doctor, she’s a nurse). The coronavirus was just hitting the news. He decided to head out of China but came back to the USA through other countries and tore his trip to China out of his passport. It worked. (Are we really that low tech)?

Anyway he wanted to see their 6 year old son and she said not for 14 days. He wouldn’t relent. She got her attorney involved. The kid had to go see him.

15 days later the kid comes down with a fever and respiratory symptoms (he’s asthmatic to begin with - had pneumonia in the winter).

Called the pediatrician (who knew the story ahead of time). She gets contacted by the local infectious disease specialist in their area and told to bring him in to this new location. They had sealed off the entire wing. He gets tested for the flu, has blood work, chest X-rays. The CDC is contacted. She said they had to wait 12 hours for a response.

Based on their criteria he was not to be tested for the coronavirus since he tested positive for the flu. They were quarantined in their home for 2 days. His fever broke. Back in school.

Meanwhile the CDC is trying to contact her ex and he simply refuses to respond to them.

She was upset they didn’t test her son because of his asthmatic condition. Thought it put him in a worse position if he had the virus and thought that being more proactive was a better course.

When she asked the infectious disease dr why they didn’t test her son he responded that the less they test the lower the numbers they had to report.

After reading the CDC’s protocol it appears that they did follow procedures.