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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...
unless symptoms are significant. We will run out of tests soon, so our office makes decisions on a case-by-case basis. We try to limit tests, but have a duty to provide them when we can and in limited circumstances.
And the fact that you will run out of tests soon is so disheartening. I hope you and your staff stay safe and thank you.
Thank you for sharing. Is there anything that is prescribed to help mild cases not turn into severe cases or fatalities?
The lack of testing will be why this will be around until there is adequate treatment identified or a vaccine that will make big pharma more powerful than the oil industry.
Basic epidemiology identifies positives to isolate, contact tracing to quarantine which reduces spread of disease. Only testing symptomatic patients does nothing. Typhoid Mary wasn’t symptomatic.
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