I’m wondering how many clinics don’t bother testing because they assume the symptoms are from a regular cold or flu?
From several accounts, this virus has a mild phase, then a seeming recovery, before the severe symptoms kick in. How sick do people have to be before the clinic takes them seriously enough to test for it? Especially if they don’t have the obvious risk factors, like having traveled to China?
I’m wondering the same thing.
I think the guidelines were to only test if someone had been to Wuhan or china or had been in close contact with someone who had.
And it sounds like from the time they develop cold or flu, it’s another 7 days before they get critical.
And then there are reports that people are appearing to recover with mild symptoms only to die of organ failure.