Some doctors are calling for prioritizing patients wishing to be tested for the coronavirus.
This should make it possible to unclog the waiting rooms of practitioners and to favor those who are most likely to have or transmit the virus.
Tests for the coronavirus appear to be victims of their success.
The number of tests carried out is increasing and the laboratories are saturated.
The government launched a testing campaign in June and Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, confirmed that access would be facilitated in the coming weeks.
But some professionals are overworked and consider that priority access should be given to certain types of profiles and in order to better target screening and avoid laboratory congestion.
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Prioritize people with symptoms and contact cases
Today, in fact, there are radically different patients in the queues.
Some have symptoms and are therefore likely to have the coronavirus, others are just worried because they have a fragile loved one and in still other cases the test is just an administrative formality to take the plane, for example.
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Some doctors therefore call for prioritizing test requests.
Priority should be given to people who are most likely to test positive and spread the virus: those who have symptoms or who are contact cases.
The latter are those who attended a positive case for fifteen minutes without a mask, either in the same room or less than a meter outside.