“There’s an hour and a half in line. You really have to want to go there, ”says an elderly lady, turning back, to people approaching the antigen screening center. A few meters away, an extended line of people runs along a corridor bounded by rubalises attached to overturned supermarket carts. About fifty people in all during the morning.
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We are in the parking lot of the La Madeleine pharmacy, in Chartres. It is here that, since Wednesday, November 4 in the morning, antigenic disinfection without a prescription have been offered, as is the case in other sites in Eure-et-Loir. Even before the center opened, some patients were already waiting on the site, as if to be sure to be in the front row of a concert. In turn, each is received by a first staff at the registration table, before being able to enter one of the tents where the samples are taken.
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Barrier gestures at home
The antigen test remains nasopharyngeal (in the nose), but unlike conventional PCR tests, no need to wait several days to know the result of the sample. Fifteen to thirty minutes is enough. This is what convinced a man and his two children to come and be tested here. “My wife is positive so we are in contact with each other,” he explains.
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“We have to move quickly to find out if our children can go back to school. There, we will know, ”he says, before being called for registration. Behind him, a woman also came with her two teenagers. She is positive, but does not know if she transmitted the virus. “I know I have been positive since Wednesday,” she testifies. “Before I knew, we had already put in place the barrier gestures at home. The whole family wears a mask. We no longer eat at the same time. We try to pay attention to everything. It is complicated. “
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The verdict falls: she is positive for Covid-19
A little further on, a couple is also patient. The man and the woman want to go to their daughter who has just given birth and prefer to “know” before approaching the baby and their grandchildren, “even if we have not taken any risks for weeks. We never know “.
Behind one of the tents, a senior awaits her test and that of her husband. “I am a person at risk. I had cancer three years ago, ”she explains. She adds :
“My daughter has tested positive and I have been in contact with her. I went to the medical permanence at the Coudray hospital center, but I was not tested. They told me to go to a center because I have stomach aches, headaches and fatigue. However, I don’t have a fever. Signs that do not seem very common to me for Covid. We will see. “
A person come to be tested
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The verdict is in: she is positive for Covid-19. One of the pharmacists takes her aside to tell her the bad news. He reassures her and tells her the procedure to follow and gives some advice before she resumes an appointment with her doctor. Despite the results, this woman says she remains “positive. I must, I am ready for anything. I think there is more serious than me. I will get over it ”.
Francois Feuilleux
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