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> Someone suffering from severe symptoms that aren't COVID-19 may have other treatment options available And someone suffering from severe symptoms has other
by 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.