Call it test anxiety, but not the kind you might remember from school.

With a shortage of COVID-19 testing kits available at Oklahoma's state lab, public health officials are prioritizing who can get tested for the virus, but it's causing high anxiety among some patients. State officials said Wednesday they're waiting on shipments of the raw materials that go into the testing kits to come from the federal government.

The American health care system is built on testing, and in normal times, patients are urged to get tested for all types of diseases, from regular mammograms and prostate exams fo...