South Florida Doctor: If You’re Not Feeling Well And Can’t Get Tested, Assume You Will Test Positive

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Just 1 much time to get a accelerated COVID trial earlier December 25, but it’s not each astir testing.

“The champion acquisition this vacation play is prevention, you privation to enactment retired of the hospital, you privation to enactment retired of urgent care, you don’t privation to beryllium successful a concern wherever you spell to the infirmary and there’s not a doc available, there’s not a vent available,” Dr. Geeta Nayyar, UM Associate Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Nayyar is encouraged that truthful galore privation to marque definite they’re COVID escaped earlier gathering, hence agelong lines astatine wide investigating sites, but she says err connected the broadside of caution, if you can’t get one.

“We really person an illustration successful our household wherever they had an vulnerability and they aren’t feeling good and we said you can’t travel my ma is immune compromised.”

Nayyar specializes successful autoimmune diseases, truthful she knows the hazard is high, and she’s besides acrophobic that cases volition emergence aft this holiday, due to the fact that the omicron variant is truthful contagious.

“Remember trial if you can, if you can’t you got to usage immoderate benignant of astute analysis, spouse with your doc connected this, if you’ve had an exposure, if you’re not feeling well, and if there’s immoderate idiosyncratic successful your household that’s not vaccinated it mightiness conscionable beryllium that clip and quarantine and marque the presumption that your trial is really going to beryllium positive.”

Once again this year, wellness experts suggests holding gatherings outside.

“Socially distancing wherever you can, if folks person to demask wherever your eating oregon drinking; look we’re successful South Florida, person your meal outside, wherever and erstwhile you can, it’s cleanable idea.”

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And Dr. Nayyar underscores the necessity to get vaccinated, and boosted.