Christopher Bowen
Christopher Bowen
Christopher Bowen
Christopher Bowen
SEYMOUR – State candidate representative Christopher Bowen is asking for faster COVID-19 tests after testing positive for the virus.
He and his wife were out of caution at Premier Urgent Care in Oxford on July 22, Bowen said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
“I will raise my call to the chorus of others who are pushing for bigger and faster tests,” Bowen, a democrat who challenges Nicole Klarides-Kitria, for her state seat, said Wednesday.
Bowen said he had tried to get a quick check on Wednesday, but that “it’s just not possible.” He said a quick review site in Hartford might not see him until next Tuesday.
Bowen said he and his wife were examined because “sometimes they were surrounded by other people and sought to be safe.”
In the social media post, published Wednesday, Bowen said he had traveled Tuesday to an “uncrowded and socially remote occasion in Beacon Falls.” He claimed that masks had been used, but did tell the Democratic City of Beacon Falls committee its positive effects as a precautionary measure.
“This morning, ” said Bowen on Wednesday, “my wife and I learned that our COVID-19 check was positive last Wednesday. We’ve been asymptomatic the whole time.”
Bowen stated that after talking to health care professionals, i.e. the emergency care center doctor, they were told that maybe they will just take them for re-testing, however, it would be futile.
“We have been informed that a positive check is very likely even after the fact, and that even if we made a positive check last Wednesday, there is a smart chance that we will even be contagious.”
However, Bowen said, “the prices for getting it are too high.” He said that he and his wife, and his crusade, would take several precautions. He said it’ll be tested again “in a week or two.”