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I have shortness of breath, cannot go up the stairs in our house without having to stop and rest. 37 years old and otherwise quite healthy. Have underlying auto
by surfsvammel 7y ago
I have shortness of breath, cannot go up the stairs in our house without having to stop and rest. 37 years old and otherwise quite healthy. Have underlying autoimmune disease, and am on immunomod. Coughing and light fever. I’ve had this for 5 days. When I called the hospital they told me to come in and get tested, but when I came to the hospital they did not test me.
The doctor told me, it wouldn’t make a difference anyway. No matter what the test would show he would tell me the same thing: go home, isolate yourself, and come back if your fever worsens.
Once your area reach a certain number of persons affected, there is little use to try to track each one. When they have changed to a strategy of trying to protect the weak, and just slow down the spread. Testing doesn’t really add much value or information.
- wirrbel 7y agoI hope you get better soon. I think your comment describes very well the economics of the pandemic when it spreads further. Basically you can treat everyone with Corona-like symptoms like a corona patient. It doesn't make much difference anymore. Isolation and monitoring of the condition. If it's a severe common cold the advice isn't that much off, too.
- annamargot 7y agoIt would sure be nice to know whether you’ve had it though. If I thought I’d already recovered from a mild COVID-19 - assuming I’d then have immunity for a decent chunk of time - I might think I could now move from the sidelines and into the fight and help others. But if I was wrong and I never did actually have it, then I’d be making things worse. Widespread testing could obv illuminate much.