“Oh look, they’re positive for rhinovirus, that means they probably don’t have COVID so we don’t need to test it!” “Oh look, they’re positive for Hepatitis B, that means they probably don’t have Hepatitis C so we don’t need to test it!”
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Replying to @Caulimovirus
I never understood the “if the have the flu you can rule out COVID-19” theory.
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Replying to @DrKJStanley @Caulimovirus
only sort of worked in a time of testing scarcity and low prevalence. And dependent upon faulty report of data from China. Now it’s totally out of the window... But testing scarcity still not fixed 
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