So you are a doctor but you cannot make a diagnosis? Did you treat that patient as if she had the virus? You know like rest in bed, drink plenty of fluids, pop and aspirin and avoid going out on the town till she feels normal? She wasted her money coming to see you.
Here’s the language from the are hospital:
We are currently testing the following patients for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19):
Outpatient patients with a travel history to COVID-19 infected areas or contact with a COVID PUI must meet the following criteria for testing:
Fever
Negative for influenza
Lower respiratory infection
We only teat outpatients with travel history or known contact with COVID 19.
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With ‘community spread’ people have no idea where they caught it. Don’t we need to TEST people and see who has it?
Catch 22. You have to prove you were near someone who has it but that person can’t get tested because they don’t know where they got it.
Why not TEST TEST TEST and then quarantine and track those with it.
Taiwan did that and, despite proximity to China, they are at under 50 infected.