Raheem KassamVerified account

4/ On December 7th I went to one of their OTHER centres across town coz I threw my back out. Anyway, that's besides the point. He comes back on the phone and is like, "Yeah you look good". I'm like, "What does that mean? Negative?"

He's like, "Yeah all your labs came back negative". Imagine my relief. Except, he adds: "Buttttt... we don't have your COVID-19 test result back yet." Ok so he just told me what I already knew on Tuesday. This is the "best hospital" in DC. Or one of them.

So I ask what I'm supposed to do, since I've been self quarantined since Tuesday. He said –  I KID YOU NOT – "I mean you're probably fine".

Now he wasn't trying to be flippant. He explained that USUALLY if there's a positive test result, they know much sooner than 3 days. So I asked him what I should do. Again, "Yeah, I would probably just unquarantine". I'm speechless. Sort of.

The populist approach to #coronavirus = polling my quarantine status ^^^

Just had the most INFURIATING phone call with @_DCHealth. When I got tested Dr said DC DOH would give me results. When I called DOH operator confirms. When I call hospital they confirm. But DC DOH lab says, "Nope, we don't". So now they're calling the hospital to discuss

I wonder how many other patients who don't have nearly 200k Twitter followers are facing frustrations like this. On hold on the DOH line they brag, "Results available within 24 hours!" For me it has been 73 hours so far and no luck. This is America – do I sue?!