Frisco Woman Says She Received 3 False Negatives Before Testing Positive for COVID-19 -Fort Worth

When 24-year-old Kelsey Blankenship woke up feeling sick on April 19, she wrote off some flu-like symptoms as allergies.  

But a few days later, as her condition worsened, she called
her primary care physician for a virtual appointment where she said she was prescribed
Tamiflu, cough syrup and a COVID-19 test to administer to herself.

After watching an instructional YouTube video nearly a dozen
times, Blankenship stuck the nasal swab up her nose.

Nearly a week later, her doctor’s office called to tell her
she’d tested negative.

Still, her symptoms worsened. As she’d waited for results,
she’d developed chest pain and eventually a loss of smell.

Her doctor’s office directed her to a drive-up testing site
in Frisco where she was given