Posted on 03/16/2020 9:05:50 PM PDT by Perseverando
Major changes are coming as a result of more widespread testing.
Say tonight you lose your mind and shoot up heroin with the hooker down the street after a blood transfusion earlier in the week at a Romanian hospital.
Tomorrow you get tested for HIV. Negative.
You sit in the house and don't move for six months.
You go back to the doctor, get tested. Results are positive.
I’m not sure what you mean.
What I mean is that a negative test in a person without symptoms is meaningless.
"The health care workers from Nuvance Health will remain sidelined until they can obtain coronavirus tests to determine if they were infected, according to the Hartford Courant, citing Gov. Ned Lamont."
I see what you mean but the article implies that they will return to work if the test is negative.
I understand what you mean.
A negative test today doesn't mean they won't test positive tomorrow.
But what is the alternative?
Quarantine all healthcare workers after possible exposure? The system would crash.
The status quo is not to restrict workers until they are symptomatic.
The actual dynamics of asymptomatic transmission are UNKNOWN. There is NO TEST that can resolve this issue.
I am working in this environment every day. There are hundreds of potential exposures.
Either we all stop working or we keep on working. There is no proper basis to choose among the alternatives.
Hippocrates said:
Life is short, but the Art, long.
The occasion fleeting
Experiment dangerous
And decision difficult.
Still the truth, 2400 years later.
I'm an EMT in an industrial setting so I'm not in a hospital or ambulance so I'm not going to encounter that much volume, hopefully.
This is confirmed as fake news. The governor is politicizing coronavirus. It seems that Demoncrats really will politicize everything.
Must extra suck for people with family members who have died from non-Chinese flu this year. No one gives a crap about them.
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