![]() ![]() “HEAD INCORRECT SIZE,” he writes on the form. The clerk says her photos aren’t up to code because her hair is too close to her face and her face is too small. A young woman, Elisabeth, goes to the post office to renew her passport. Throughout the ordeal, I kept thinking of an early scene from the novel Autumn, by the prolific Scottish writer Ali Smith. I never could find a source for that statistic. Only later did I learn my neighbors’ doctor claimed 30 percent of tests were false negatives. The problem was I could barely breathe at all - I felt worse than ever. My neighbors - the presumed source of my cough - couldn’t get tested. I felt lucky for the clarity it would bring. ![]() That one got it right, and the hotline nurse scheduled a test for the following morning. It went to the office’s normal scheduler, who transferred me to the actual hotline, but he did it wrong, so I ended up with a different scheduler. IN EARLY MAY, I got a cough my doctor’s online portal directed me to a COVID-19 hotline. ![]()
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