Possible coronavirus patient in Sonoma County can't get tested, blames President Trump

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A Sonoma County couple is under self-quarantine after returning from Italy.[br /][br /]The wife is especially sick - she and her doctors believe from coronavirus - but she has not been able to get tested.[br /][Ads /][br /][url HREF="https://twitter.com/dannoyes" TARGET="" REL=""]I-Team reporter Dan Noyes[/url] spoke with the couple about their growing frustration.[br /][br /][b]RELATED: [url HREF="https://abc7news.com/health/coronavirus-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bay-area-shelter-in-place-order/6019152/" TARGET="" REL=""]Coronavirus: Everything you need to know about San Francisco Bay Area's shelter-in-place order[/url][/b][br /][br /]Donnee Komisar tells Dan she's sure she has the coronavirus, so he took steps to protect the both of them. He delivered a wireless microphone in a bright blue plastic bag to the 69-year-old, and then kept a healthy social distance.[br /][br /]Donnie Komisar tell Dan she returned from two months in Italy; she took her granddaughter to pursue their mutual interest in art.[br /][br /]Her husband, David Stahlberg, joined for the last part of the trip. They've both felt coronavirus symptoms, but Donnee's is the worst.[br /][br /]"I felt really sick," Donnee Komisar told the I-Team. "And then I started to feel a little better and I thought okay I'm getting over this and then a second wave hit. And I've been in bed for the last three days."[br /][br /]She started feeling sick on the flight home March 4th, and it got worse as they made their way from Italy through Germany and to SFO.[br /][Ads /][br /][b]Dan:[/b] "Are you sure you have COVID-19?"[br /][br /][b]Donnee Komisar:[/b] I've talked to the Sonoma County Health Department, and my doctors at UCSF Medical Center and they both say those sound like the symptoms, but I couldn't get tested. I've tried. ... Nobody has kits to test."[br /][br /]They told her to self-quarantine and as the days drag on, Donnee is getting more and more frustrated, especially when she heard this from President Trump.[br /][br /]"But we have 'em very heavily tested," the president said March 12. "If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we're testing. We have a tremendous testing set up where people coming in have to be tested."[br /][br /][b]Donnee Komisar:[/b] "Well, listen, how many lies has he told now? What 17,000 lies. So, hello!"[br /][br /][b]Dan: [/b]"So this isn't true?"[br /][br /][b]Donnee Komisar:[/b] "Absolutely not, consider the source."[br /][Ads /][br /]Dan called and emailed the Sonoma County Department of Public Health to find out when Donnee might get a coronavirus test, but did not hear back.[br /][br /]Yesterday, officials said the county is doing its best to ramp up testing.[br /][br /]Dr. Sundari Mase, Interim Health Director Sonoma County, said, "As far as the number of tests being performed, that is dynamic, always changing so I can't give you he exact up to date numbers.However as of Friday, our public health lab performed over 60 tests."[br /][br /]Donnee Komisar tells Dan she just started feeling better today. But she wants to be tested for COVID-19 before she ends her self-quarantine. 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