Yikes!
This is terrible.
Is there any way you can post the email, speedy? Like a cut and paste?
I should not post it. The email came from the Chief Medical Officer at a large Austin hospital.
The hospital said they have a good stock pile of PPE but need to conserve it for the expected surge. Hospital has plans to use various wings of the hospital in stages. Hospital only wants to test people who have obvious “significant” symptoms. Milder cases are to be sent home to self isolate. Reasoning is a positive test result will not change the medical decision making. Milder symptoms won’t be admitted to the hospital if test results are positive or negative. Email listed how many beds hospital has and current number of patients. Hospital is working on plans to draft physicians from other specialties in the hospital to assist ER docs.
Austin city government has a website with good info: http://www.austintexas.gov/COVID19