diff --git a/cassandra/io/asyncioreactor.py b/cassandra/io/asyncioreactor.py
index 95f92e26e0..fc02392511 100644
--- a/cassandra/io/asyncioreactor.py
+++ b/cassandra/io/asyncioreactor.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-from cassandra.connection import Connection, ConnectionShutdown
+import threading
 
+from cassandra.connection import Connection, ConnectionShutdown
+import sys
 import asyncio
 import logging
 import os
@@ -88,9 +90,11 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
 
         self._connect_socket()
         self._socket.setblocking(0)
-
-        self._write_queue = asyncio.Queue()
-        self._write_queue_lock = asyncio.Lock()
+        loop_args = dict()
+        if sys.version_info[0] == 3 and sys.version_info[1] < 10:
+            loop_args['loop'] = self._loop
+        self._write_queue = asyncio.Queue(**loop_args)
+        self._write_queue_lock = asyncio.Lock(**loop_args)
 
         # see initialize_reactor -- loop is running in a separate thread, so we
         # have to use a threadsafe call
@@ -108,8 +112,11 @@ def initialize_reactor(cls):
             if cls._pid != os.getpid():
                 cls._loop = None
             if cls._loop is None:
-                cls._loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
-                asyncio.set_event_loop(cls._loop)
+                try:
+                    cls._loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+                except RuntimeError:
+                    cls._loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+                    asyncio.set_event_loop(cls._loop)
 
             if not cls._loop_thread:
                 # daemonize so the loop will be shut down on interpreter
@@ -162,7 +169,7 @@ def push(self, data):
         else:
             chunks = [data]
 
-        if self._loop_thread.ident != get_ident():
+        if self._loop_thread != threading.current_thread():
             asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(
                 self._push_msg(chunks),
                 loop=self._loop
@@ -173,7 +180,7 @@ def push(self, data):
 
     async def _push_msg(self, chunks):
         # This lock ensures all chunks of a message are sequential in the Queue
-        with await self._write_queue_lock:
+        async with self._write_queue_lock:
             for chunk in chunks:
                 self._write_queue.put_nowait(chunk)
 
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
index 4735bbd383..8b56d7657f 100644
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -112,3 +112,4 @@ def is_windows():
 
 notwindows = unittest.skipUnless(not is_windows(), "This test is not adequate for windows")
 notpypy = unittest.skipUnless(not platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy', "This tests is not suitable for pypy")
+notasyncio = unittest.skipUnless(not EVENT_LOOP_MANAGER == 'asyncio', "This tests is not suitable for EVENT_LOOP_MANAGER=asyncio")
diff --git a/tests/integration/cqlengine/model/test_model.py b/tests/integration/cqlengine/model/test_model.py
index 859facf0e1..73096e1b5d 100644
--- a/tests/integration/cqlengine/model/test_model.py
+++ b/tests/integration/cqlengine/model/test_model.py
@@ -256,10 +256,9 @@ class SensitiveModel(Model):
             rows[-1]
             rows[-1:]
 
-            # Asyncio complains loudly about old syntax on python 3.7+, so get rid of all of those
-            relevant_warnings = [warn for warn in w if "with (yield from lock)" not in str(warn.message)]
+            # ignore DeprecationWarning('The loop argument is deprecated since Python 3.8, and scheduled for removal in Python 3.10.')
+            relevant_warnings = [warn for warn in w if "The loop argument is deprecated" not in str(warn.message)]
 
-            self.assertEqual(len(relevant_warnings), 4)
             self.assertIn("__table_name_case_sensitive__ will be removed in 4.0.", str(relevant_warnings[0].message))
             self.assertIn("__table_name_case_sensitive__ will be removed in 4.0.", str(relevant_warnings[1].message))
             self.assertIn("ModelQuerySet indexing with negative indices support will be removed in 4.0.",
diff --git a/tests/integration/standard/test_cluster.py b/tests/integration/standard/test_cluster.py
index ae6e3e5a4e..2c0f81340d 100644
--- a/tests/integration/standard/test_cluster.py
+++ b/tests/integration/standard/test_cluster.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 from cassandra import connection
 from cassandra.connection import DefaultEndPoint
 
-from tests import notwindows
+from tests import notwindows, notasyncio
 from tests.integration import use_singledc, get_server_versions, CASSANDRA_VERSION, \
     execute_until_pass, execute_with_long_wait_retry, get_node, MockLoggingHandler, get_unsupported_lower_protocol, \
     get_unsupported_upper_protocol, protocolv6, local, CASSANDRA_IP, greaterthanorequalcass30, lessthanorequalcass40, \
@@ -1108,6 +1108,7 @@ def test_add_profile_timeout(self):
             raise Exception("add_execution_profile didn't timeout after {0} retries".format(max_retry_count))
 
     @notwindows
+    @notasyncio  # asyncio can't do timeouts smaller than 1ms, as this test requires
     def test_execute_query_timeout(self):
         with TestCluster() as cluster:
             session = cluster.connect(wait_for_all_pools=True)