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> Testing people with symptoms is a waste of tests. It's not, though. Someone suffering from severe symptoms that aren't COVID-19 may have other treatment opti
by Shank 7y ago
> Testing people with symptoms is a waste of tests.
It's not, though. Someone suffering from severe symptoms that aren't COVID-19 may have other treatment options available, and may be placed in hospitals with less strict isolation requirements. In a perfect world we would have isolation beds and supplies for everybody, but that still doesn't get around the fact that treatment for COVID-19 and bacterial pneumonia are two different beasts, and both lead to similar end results.
- bhickey 7y ago> Someone suffering from severe symptoms that aren't COVID-19 may have other treatment options available And someone suffering from severe symptoms has other diagnostic options: a chest X-ray or CT. If your goal is to find people with coronavirus (and this should be your goal if you want to slow its spread) you'll almost always find more of them by testing people without symptoms.