After listening to @CHEO spokesperson on @otttawamorning today talking about local COVID testing capacity in #YOW, I want to give a head's up to fellow parents about what happens AFTER your kid gets the nose poke. [thread]
When you leave the Brewer arena you will have a brochure for the MyChart system and you will have been told this is how to get your test results. Remember @ottawahealth only CALLS if your result is positive.
School/childcare wants to know you have a *negative* before your child returns. To get access to MyChart, you need a code. You won't get one at Brewer. You have to go online to MyChart for *CHEO* (CHEO/Sick Kids), NOT MyChart for Ottawa Hospital.
You have to do this as a parent, even if you already have a MyChart for yourself. If your kid is 12+, he/she might have to do this step, the info isn't totally clear.

Now you will wait for a MyChart authorization code by email. They say 24 hours but we've blown past that now.
So you will wait for the authorization code to be able to set up the online account that will let you continue to wait and check, repeatedly, to find out if you have the negative test.
In the meantime, you must stay home as a family.
If you normally use the wifi or computer at the local coffee shop/library/community centre, too bad.

You are supposed to be isolating until/unless you have a negative result, which you can check.... online.
You will also have left Brewer with a muti-sided information sheet advising that "Persons tested at Brewer Assessment Centre can access their results through MyChart". This will match the brochure and the verbal direction you get from the hard-working staff.
'Right,' you will think, 'only through MyChart".

But, if you have internet in your place of isolation and go to the CHEO website, you may find an FAQ that suggests COVID results can be accessed through the provincial site
Again, if you have internet, you can log into that site (as frequently and obsessively as you wish), but note the disclaimer at the top of the page and you will wonder if your child's results will or will not be reported there.
While you navigate the disjointed process put in place by public health, school boards and 2 hospitals, consider that it has been designed for some families but not all families.
If you can't be at your computer in your home at 8:30 PM on high-speed internet,
if you do not have the wherewithal to isolate at home while you wait for a code to arrive by email that may take as long as your test results, if you cannot access the MyChart system from home, this system may not be for you.

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