Vanity: Medical Professionals who can't get COVID-19 Testing Done for Patients

VANITY

[TChad]

Someone tell LABCORP and the New Hanover County Health Department.

Oh come on, doc, give them a hint. Just because I found that page doesn't mean they will.

[Osage Orange]

You know...If I was you..I’d just go rent a cabin in a forest...an just calm down.

[Osage Orange]

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

[hondact200]

Mayo Clinic is a leading medical provider in the USA.

[Svartalfiar]

What will change with the results of a test? You’ll still have the same symptoms. The treatment won’t change.

Testing does matter. If they don't know what you have, then how do they know what to give you to treat it? Different drugs work on different issues, and stuff like antibiotics is useless on a viral infections. Antiviral meds are useless on a bacterial infection.

Lots of different sicknesses have the same symptoms. Try going to WebMD's online doc thing, and enter the very generic fever, cough, and sore throat (pick any combo of symptoms you want). See how many different possibilities pop up.

[gunnut]

Strange. One hospital near us is going to do drive up testing for anyone with flu symptoms.

https://www.hockessincommunitynews.com/news/20200312/christianacare-offers-free-drive-up-coronavirus-testing-at-riverfront

[VeniVidiVici]

North Korea is testing over a million people a day.

Your information must be out of date.

Or completely bullshit to begin with.

[WildHighlander57]

Thank you for your posts on this!

[FoxInSocks]

Lots of different sicknesses have the same symptoms.

Precisely. So why are people literally panicking about something as mild and commonplace as a flu-like illness?

Different drugs work on different issues, and stuff like antibiotics is useless on a viral infections.

If they draw your blood and find bacteria in it, they can prescribe the appropriate antibiotic. If you have a viral infection, they can treat the symptoms. If the symptoms are limited to a fever, cough, headache, and malaise, you can drink lots of water and get rest at home. If you have comorbidities and a weakened immune system and then you develop a systemic infection, you need to go to the hospital.

[TigerClaws]

Actually, I posted that SOUTH KOREA had done over 200,000 tests.

Here’s my source:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/11/has-south-korea-stabilized-its-covid-19-outbreak-infographic/#755ed576686f

[TigerClaws]

Lucky you.

One guy got tested and received good news — he only had the flu.

But then the hospital sent him the bill. $3,200.

The local press contacted them and the hospital said they’d take $1,400.

What is this telling the average — paycheck to paycheck — American? DON’T GET TESTED.

[TarasBulbous]

It’s not hard if you’re a politician, famous actor, pro athlete, etc.

Common peon? Good luck.

[Svartalfiar]

Precisely. So why are people literally panicking about something as mild and commonplace as a flu-like illness?

Because it's not as mild and commonplace as the flu. The flu is much more widespread, but if we're not careful enough then the Wuhan virus can reach the same or more people. And it's definitely more deadly - even the lowest estimates using cherry-picked data and incorrect CFR math gives a fatality rate of 0.7% - when the flu is somewhere in the 0.1-0.2% range.


If they draw your blood and find bacteria in it, they can prescribe the appropriate antibiotic. If you have a viral infection, they can treat the symptoms. If the symptoms are limited to a fever, cough, headache, and malaise, you can drink lots of water and get rest at home. If you have comorbidities and a weakened immune system and then you develop a systemic infection, you need to go to the hospital.

Correct. And it goes to your original point - if we didn't do any testing, the doc wouldn't know which of those was the correct answer.