OT: Where can you get a rapid COVID test in Michigan, specifically Lansing area?

Submitted by dmac24 on November 18th, 2020 at 7:34 PM

Where can you get a rapid COVID test in Michigan, specifically Lansing area if possible?

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Lakeyale13

November 19th, 2020 at 6:24 AM ^

Thanks for the well wishes my Michigan Brothers.  Started with back ache and a general feeling of crappiness / nausea.  Fever the next morning, which had me go get tested. 
 

So far, I feel quite lucky.  Feels like a moderate case of the flu. Nothing too bad at all. Praying it stays that way and I don’t get any worse. 

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Absorbine Sr.

November 18th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^

Sparrow Hospital. Head down Michigan Ave towards the capitol. Big building on the right with a skywalk across the road. Can’t miss it. 

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mpbear14

November 18th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^

Rapid test? Better try and walk-on to the football team or join a professional sports team. 
 

us common folk have to do it the old fashion way. 

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maizemama

November 18th, 2020 at 9:29 PM ^

You probably can't get a rapid at this point. Even regular are more than 5 days out for results. Everyone is running as many tests as they can. Maybe if you go to the hospital and need to be admitted for something you can get a rapid. 

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RandallFlagg

November 18th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^

Call your doctor and tell him you’re  not feeling well. Describe Covid symptoms and the doc will give advice.  The test won’t do anything but tell you if you are positive or negative.  If you test positive then stay home for 10 days and if you don’t get tested but are sick then doc will tell you to stay home for 14 days.  That’s what my doc told me when I was sick for a couple days.  I didn’t get tested so I took two weeks off from work.  Easy day.  I drank a lot and got paid to stay home and not work. 

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The Mayor

November 18th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^

I’ve used the sparrow site in frandor 3 times. 2 pos/1 neg ( I had to get a neg test for work) last test took less than 1 day. This was July/August. Not sure now though.

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4th phase

November 19th, 2020 at 12:28 AM ^

Based on your posting history, you didn’t make the right “wise” decisions to avoid getting covid, and you should probably take your own advice and “look at the data yourself and make your own decision” on where to get rapid testing...

You wanted no one telling you what to do. So I don’t have any advice on where you should go to get tested. 

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St Joe Blues

November 19th, 2020 at 11:20 AM ^

Are you also hoping they find cancer when they test him, and that he gets in an accident on the way?

BTW he didn't even say the test was for him. For all you know, his kid could have picked up something at school or his 83 year old neighbor gotten something from the Shipt driver.

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4th phase

November 19th, 2020 at 1:05 PM ^

He previously said this:

Comparing this to drunk driving is a massive stretch.  People that drive drunk are incapable of being in charge of their faculties and making well thought out decisions. Also, if I know that Main St. is a hot spot for drag racing, I am capable of making a wise decision to avoid going near that area when racing is common.  In other words, if I want to play football this year, and understand that someone else might be stupid and pass on the virus on to me and know all the possibilities that come with, yet I'm still wanting to play football, why can't I make that decision for myself? Why do others get to think they know more and make a decision for me by telling me that I can't? 

So following his logic, he/whoever got sick should have been capable of making the decision not to get covid. And I'm not hoping for anything, other than that he reflects on his prior attitude toward covid now that it has affected someone close to him. Am I being an ass and dismissive of his plight? Yes I am because thats exactly what he did previously with covid. 

In other words, if he wants to *live his life and not take covid seriously* and understand that someone else might be stupid and pass the virus onto him and he knows all the possibilities that come with, yet he still wants to *go about his life*, why do I have to feel bad for him and help him get a rapid test?

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UMICH1606

November 19th, 2020 at 3:50 AM ^

AMD urgent care facilities have a rapid test. The closest facility to Lansing is in Swartz Creek. That is about a 45 minute drive. Get there before they open though.

Normally a couple hour wait in a waiting room with people getting covid testing.

You may get covid while waiting to get tested for covid.

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