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#2872882 22-Feb-2022 19:56

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Well, that was 3 hours of my life I am never getting back. In the stinking heat with a sick kid.

I am now seriously pissed that RATS aren't available much more freely.

In the queue for getting our RATS, which was run stupidly inefficiently, my son got his negative result via text. I'm still waiting.

3 hours to get RATS is totally unacceptable. With the personnel they had, they could have processed 2-3 times as many people as they were.

Downside of us all testing negative is that this could all start again from scratch next week if any of us get symptoms or are close contacts.

My wife is working for the DHB. She wanted RATs just in case. Took her 10 minutes to get them.

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#2872885 22-Feb-2022 20:07

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My wife is working for the DHB. She wanted RATs just in case. Took her 10 minutes to get them.

My wife a GP and you'd think we would be able to get them easily, but nope, it's a total drama. You'd think we had asked for a box of live ammo and a fully automatic weapon.

It's more than a little frustrating that they are easily given out to some and others can't get them when they should be able to.

We are almost to the point of considering an approach to the black market.

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#2872887 22-Feb-2022 20:10

We purchased RATs to give our staff. Ordered and arrived very quickly

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#2872936 22-Feb-2022 20:14

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We purchased RATs to give our staff. Ordered and arrived very quickly

Where from?

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#2872937 22-Feb-2022 20:16

My wife ordered them through a local disability centre

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#2872951 22-Feb-2022 20:47

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My wife ordered them through a local disability centre

We probably wouldn't be eligible to order from there would we ?

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#2872954 22-Feb-2022 20:50

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MikeB4:

My wife ordered them through a local disability centre

We probably wouldn't be eligible to order from there would we ?

Need a NBN to order them officially

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#2873056 23-Feb-2022 08:15

networkn:

Geektastic:

My wife is working for the DHB. She wanted RATs just in case. Took her 10 minutes to get them.

My wife a GP and you'd think we would be able to get them easily, but nope, it's a total drama. You'd think we had asked for a box of live ammo and a fully automatic weapon.

It's more than a little frustrating that they are easily given out to some and others can't get them when they should be able to.

We are almost to the point of considering an approach to the black market.

It appears RATS should be much easier to get from today ... hopefully they hand them out quickly so that people aren't having to wait in queues.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127855004/covid19-auckland-testing-centres-will-give-out-rapid-antigen-tests-to-all

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#2873057 23-Feb-2022 08:17

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It appears RATS should be much easier to get from today ... hopefully they hand them out quickly so that people aren't having to wait in queues.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127855004/covid19-auckland-testing-centres-will-give-out-rapid-antigen-tests-to-all

Certainly, where we were yesterday at Balmoral, we had to line up. 3 hours.

It's a total debacle.

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#2873063 23-Feb-2022 08:41

*finally* got my negative result 6.5 days from when I had my test, about 1 minute prior to walking into my office.

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#2873110 23-Feb-2022 10:07

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*finally* got my negative result 6.5 days from when I had my test, about 1 minute prior to walking into my office.

Good news 🖖

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#2873115 23-Feb-2022 10:10

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networkn:

*finally* got my negative result 6.5 days from when I had my test, about 1 minute prior to walking into my office.

Good news 🖖

Sort of. The downside is that I still haven't had it and we could still get it potentially have to isolate again :)

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#2873125 23-Feb-2022 10:19

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*finally* got my negative result 6.5 days from when I had my test, about 1 minute prior to walking into my office.

From the Herald just now

Laboratories processing Covid-19 tests are said to have already reached capacity, leading to some tests simply not being processed at all.

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#2873130 23-Feb-2022 10:23

My son had a cold for 12 hours. We can't send him to school until we get a covid test and a negative result, which takes 5-7 days. So there's five days off school and five days off work which would have been much reduced if rapid antigen test had been available.

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#2873136 23-Feb-2022 10:29

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My son had a cold for 12 hours. We can't send him to school until we get a covid test and a negative result, which takes 5-7 days. So there's five days off school and five days off work which would have been much reduced if rapid antigen test had been available.

I totally get your frustration. We have been 10 days isolating. A total waste of time that could have been avoided if we had RATS available.

Phase 3 will help a lot with this, they need to bring it in immediately since testing capacity is broken.

Go to your local CBAC and get a RATS, they are readily available, though it will be a long wait I suspect, unfortunately. We spent 3 hours yesterday.

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