Urgent care doctor warns COVID positivity rate could be higher than reported
The SUNY Stony Brook facility will be opening Tuesday.
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Jan 11, 2022, 1:20 AM
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Updated 1,100 days ago
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Island this week.
The SUNY Stony Brook facility will be opening Tuesday.
Dr. Daniel La, medical director at AFC Urgent Care, says anyone
experiencing symptoms or who tests positive on an at-home test should get a PCR
test to confirm their case.
He says at-home tests aren't being reported to the state so the
state's positivity rate could be skewed.
"I don't think that the positivity rates are going
down," La says. "I think it's stabilizing or actually going up."
He says around 50-60 people are testing positive a day throughout
their urgent care facilities.
Another state-run testing facility opens at Farmingdale
State College on Thursday.
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