Between a few hours and a few weeks of waiting. Asked on Facebook by Paris-Normandy, many Internet users declare delays beyond eight days for waiting for the results of a PCR test in Le Havre. « It’s been a long time. I wonder if it serves any purpose », asks Mathieu legitimately, who waited eight days. Below, a woman claims to have finally received results after a thirteen day wait, but her friend replies: « Given the delays, unfortunately you have been able to become positive in the meantime … »
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Six times less
people
The policy allowing everyone to be tested without a prescription or an appointment quickly overwhelmed laboratories, forcing health institutions to slow down. « We’re absorbing the last big wave of pre-differentiation screening. It was a tsunami with 10 to 15 000 tests last week », testifies Éric Meunier, medical biologist responsible for the ephemeral test areas of the Verdun laboratory, in front of the station and on the square of the town hall.
Since the differentiation last week, the three sites only accommodate people considered “urgent”: contact cases identified by the ARS and the CPAM, symptomatic people or people with a prescription and some nursing staff.
Following this distinction, the number of analyzes was approximately divided by six, estimates Éric Meunier. Problem, some people express their discontent in a muscular way. « We had to call security a few times. You have to understand that they are terrified of being sick. For ages they’ve been told the tests are free, without an appointment, without a prescription. »
Éric Meunier estimates the delay in these analyzes at around three days, or around a week for the tests carried out at the station, at the town hall and at the rue de Verdun laboratory.
To cope with the influx, the laboratory, which also subcontracts results taken from other sites, hired six additional people. « We work 7 days a week, day and night. We can’t answer the phone. » Éric Meunier specifies that in parallel it is necessary to continue the classic medical analyzes.
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Longer than isolation
Hôpital Privé de l’Estuaire seems to be among the best performers and send results within hours, the same day or the next. At Jacques-Monod hospital, on the other hand, some Internet users say they have waited nearly two weeks, longer than the recommended isolation period.
For non-priority people, waiting times are inevitably extended before obtaining an appointment: about a week. However, with such delays, everyone was able to reach new people even before being tested positive. The barrier gestures of everyday life regain, in fact, all their importance.
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“I still do not have the result of my test”
PCR tests are analyzed in the laboratory.
(Photo Paris-Normandy)
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PCR tests are analyzed in the laboratory.
(Photo Paris-Normandy)
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Internet users testified on the Facebook page of “ Paris-Normandy Regarding their waiting time for test results.
Aurel : “Test carried out for my 9 1/2 year old son at Monod on September 10th. It’s been two weeks and still nothing … It’s getting ridiculous … Even if I know that the labs are overwhelmed, now it becomes BIG nonsense. ”
Adeline : “Test done for symptoms on the 14th for our son and still no return, and on the 16th for my husband because of contact, and idem, still no return (September 24). ”
Magali : “Test done on September 7 for me and on 9 for my daughter and still no results (September 24). It’s a shame. ”
Kelly : “Test done on September 15 at the station with a prescription. I was symptomatic. A colleague who had the test the next day at the same place had her result 48 hours later (negative). To date I do not have the result of my test … ”
Lise : “Done on 10/09 at the town hall because I had symptoms. Result on 09/21, or no interest! ”
Michel : “My wife and I, following a contact case, performed the test with a nurse and received the result within 24 hours. ”
Sarah : “I waited two weeks for someone to tell me that it is undetermined. I received a prescription to retest. ”
Caroline : “I did one on September 2 at the station and I never received the results. ”
Regine : “I carried out a test on 09/05 and I received my result by email after five days, but for my children of 2 and 3 years old I received it eight days later by post because only one result by email is possible … While small children do not yet have an email box, let’s be logical. ”
Daisy : “Wait that long, I no longer see the point of taking a test!” In addition, it is not 100% effective. A person negative today can be positive three days later. ”
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