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People seem to be caught up in a frenzy of the importance of PCR testing. In reality, even if no one got tested, Doctors would still be doing pretty much the s
by swamp40 7y ago
People seem to be caught up in a frenzy of the importance of PCR testing.
In reality, even if no one got tested, Doctors would still be doing pretty much the same things they are doing now. The same numbers of people would live or die. Hypoxemia and pneumonia are easy to diagnose. The treatment is standard. Any medicines are likely to work the same without regard to the exact RNA makeup of the virus.
Quarantine is still a good idea. Remember, if it mutates all these tests are going to be useless anyway. So a negative result has to be treated as dangerous anyway.