In late June, when a customer at Herbie’s restaurant in Clayton tested positive for the coronavirus, owner Aaron Teitelbaum immediately closed the business and told employees to get tested to see if they were infected. Teitelbaum expected to wait a few days for his employees’ results to come back. But almost three weeks later, many were still waiting. In this episode, we hear from Teitelbaum, as well as the incident commander of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, Dr. Alex Garza. Garza describes why it’s taken so long for many COVID-19 test results to be delivered and what hospital admissions data says about how the coronavirus is spreading through the region.
