It took more than two weeks after former Lamar R-1 Superintendent Dennis Wilson became the first Johnson County, Kansas person to die from COVID-19 for county officials to allow his widow to be tested for the virus.
An article posted today on the Kansas City Star website details the nightmare Joanna Wilson went through. After her husband died, Johnson County officials would not test her because she was not exhibiting symptoms.
Last week when those symptoms began to develop, they still would not permit her to be tested.
She was finally tested Saturday, 15 days after her husband's death and the test came back positive Monday.
She said she’d been in self-quarantine since her husband died, and the 14 days would have ended Saturday.
“I could have been out Sunday getting my essential items, exposing 20, 40, 60 people,” said Wilson, a retired nurse. “But I knew better, so I never left quarantine at all.
“The thing that bothers me is that most of the people that call the health department are the regular public that don’t have a medical background or knowledge of what to do, and they’re calling them for direction. No wonder we can’t flatten the curve.”
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