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2. The patient drove home in a private car. So the new Texas quarantine order from the governor that applies to air travel will absolutely miss cases coming in from outside Texas.
3. The patient’s symptoms were very mild: temperature no higher than 100.3, mild cough, no shortness of breath. So you can’t rely on symptom severity as a marker for illness. Stay safe y’all. We’re just getting started.
Can I ask what prompted the patient to seek care with such mild symptoms? Is testing currently available to you to a degree that you’re able to do that kind of testing for all the patients you think you ought to?
He asked to be tested due to the place he had traveled and the gradual onset of symptoms, which is typical for COVID-19. Most physicians and epidemiologists would prefer testing everyone so that we can track the disease properly, but my advice is to not seek testing...
Thank you for this Dr. Mann!
Is there any information about using CPAP devices in mild cases while the shortage of ventilators?
Not that I’ve seen. The problem is that the virus damaged the small air sacs in the lungs and CPAP doesn’t help that at all.
I presume everyone has the virus. I'm already an obsessive hand washer and have stepped up that game. I have drastically cut down on touching my face and am bowing, curtsying (is that a word?), or doing the classic
instead of handshakes
Rapid recovery to your patient.
So the patient drove home from a state and doesn't know how he got infected. Could have been from surface areas or something he touched. This is very worrisome. This is why we need a national lockdown. The virus will not stop with stay at home in one county and none in another
Can a long lasting mild cough without fever be a sign? A family member has had slight runny nose and sore throat 5 weeks ago and the cough just stayed. It is important for us, as we will move to our family's home and they are high risk 
Probably not. 5 weeks ago we had very few cases in the US, and the person would have had to catch it a week before that. Lingering cough is very common with many colds and other viruses.
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