If there's a thousand people dying of pneumonia every day in Wuhan and you have capacity to test 2,000 people, do you spend half of that capacity on the dead? O

If there's a thousand people dying of pneumonia every day in Wuhan and you have capacity to test 2,000 people, do you spend half of that capacity on the dead? Or do you try and test the "maybe" cases who might or might not be infected and shouldn't be put in a ward with whole bunch of infected people?