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1. To give epidemiologists and public health officials a better picture of how widespread the virus is. 2. To make it more likely that infected persons isolate
by timmytokyo 7y ago
1. To give epidemiologists and public health officials a better picture of how widespread the virus is.
2. To make it more likely that infected persons isolate themselves to avoid spreading the virus further.
- pneill 7y agoThey get that data the same way they always do, from people seeking medical attention. People who are symptomatic for anything ( flu, cold, etc) should always isolate themselves. What’s madness is asymptotic people testing themselves.
- enumjorge 7y agoThere's a lot we don't know about this new strain of virus, which makes it hard to contain it. Testing provides data points. I'm not sure why it's so hard to understand that having more data as opposed to less when facing an unknown is a good thing.