I would hope they would have a more modern way of notifying you...I would say carrier pigeons.
It’s largely components of the testing. Plastic tips for pipettes, reagents, sterile cotton swabs... All stuff we should have known we would need a huge stock loads of and had sketchy supply chains. We were getting 24-48 hour turn arounds and it dropped to almost a week so tests had to be sent out of town to a lab that can do them 3-5 days.
well in my case, they swabbed my brain less than 32 hours before they called me saying I was negative (and if you're wondering, it was the very nurse I initially checked in with that called...so I think each clinic gets their results and is responsible for calling their people).
...and the obligatory 'up to 30% can be false negatives', 'stay quarantined until 10 days after first symptoms or 24 hrs after last fever' stuff........but my boss still wants me to work from home tomorrow anyway
I know of two people who tested positive and one did reasonably well and the other was in far worse shape. And he was about 30-40 years younger. My group of friends and family have told me of two other people. And unfortunately both of those people didn’t make it.
I live in a town of 700, live a block from my office, and it's 25 ft from anybody else in a company of 12 total. I have to work at it to NOT be social distancing.
My brothers mother in law has it, waiting to see if his father in law does as well. Shes in rough shape. The silver lining here is that some folks got to golf, I'll let my nephew know some guys got their balls down range, so when it comes to his grandmother, **** happens