How I got tested for Covid-19. It wasn’t easy.

Mario Strada
11 min readMar 30, 2020

Today, March 30 2020, I was tested for Covid-19. I live in Sacramento, California. I should be one of many being tested, but instead I am still one of the lucky few, at least among those that don’t have catastrophic symptoms, and I was fortunate I was tested at all. More on that later.

Covid-19 virus. Testing is still lagging behind

I knew we were in for a Pandemic when news from China and Italy started trickling in and president…

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Mario Strada

I was born in Italy, but I lived for the past 30+ years in the USA.