Currently most hospitals are equipped to do serological testing on specimens to diagnose at least three different types of the coronavirus but not Covid 19. Before the report out of Iran is taken as true, independent reliable testing specific for COVID 19 must be performed on the specimens they tested. Suspect that they did detect a coronavirus in these patients but few American hospitals currently have reliable means to make the definitive test. Somehow doubt the hard pressed Iranians have the means to diagnose COVID 19 accurately in a regional hospital.
All of the tests are being sent to the Pasteur Institute in Tehran.
That being said, the Health Minister is saying that the tests will only be done on people with serious symptoms, but it’s expensive
Why didn’t you say that before?
Could well be a regular flu.