Surely Covid should have been the first thing tested for?

[Getbuzywiththefizzy]

Really annoyed.
Just found out that my BIL has Covid.
He did a postal test at the beginning of the week and it’s just come back positive.
Also just found out that he has been unwell since before Christmas with a very bad chest. He called the gp surgery just before Christmas and was told it’s probably a chest infection and was prescribed antibiotics, twice!
Never once did the nurse or my BIL consider it could be Covid and the family have been going about their everyday life. They have also seen my 80 year old FIL, he in turn has been seeing other people, doing his food shopping and even had 2 hospital appointments this week as he was totally unaware BIL was poorly.
As BIL wasn’t getting much better it crossed his mind to do the test this week.
I asked SIL how she felt and she said fine, except for a runny nose and a slight cough but I get that every winter so I won’t be getting a test for that.
I despair!

That is quite poor. I hope nobody else catches it & he makes a speedy recovery

I wouldn’t blame the nurse, your BIL should have considered getting a test as soon as his chest got bad.

Me too. Apparently he has been quite rough the last couple of weeks hence the second dose of antibiotics. He still sounded very chesty when dh was on the phone to them yesterday.

@Cactusowl

I wouldn’t blame the nurse, your BIL should have considered getting a test as soon as his chest got bad.

But to think that he contact the surgery twice hence the second dose of antibiotics?!

I mean, he’s a functioning adult right? It’s incredibly widely known that covid is a respiratory illness - any sort of cough/chest infection etc should be tested for. I’m sure the surgery assumed he’d already done this.

Don’t forget people not always think rationally when they are ill. Of course they should have told him to get tested.