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Non-covid diseases still require the use of PPE. Also, PPE is much easier to produce than tests.

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Non-covid diseases still require the use of PPE. The PPE required for some COVID-19 symptoms in the absence of clear indication of a droplet/airborne transmissible condition are different than for COVID-19. You don't usually use droplet, much less airborne, protections for every patient presenting with a fever, or GI symptoms, or several of the other ways COVID-19 can present, but you must with the prevalence of COVID-19 until you can rule it out. And it's even more critical to identify COVID-19 or it's absence in sick patients when part of your containment strategy involves segregating ftreatment facilities (part of the capacity surge has been in establishing either new COVID-19 specific facilities or new facilities to handle non-COVID-19 cases while existing capacity is dedicated to COVID-19.)