Don’t test; no positives.
Then since not every person in each country has been tested the whole conversation is moot by the standard you are setting.
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Our local news tonight said 24 people in Alaska had been tested, all were negative for coronavirus. I suspect that that is typical … far more negative test results than positive.
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I just not getting the obsession regarding testing. Testing neither helps the patients who test positive, nor prevents the disease from being transmitted to others. Testing is only valuable to identify whether a sick person is sick from this particular virus, and to determine if people who have been exposed to that person have also been infected so that they may be quarantined. But people who are infected but get only a mild case of the disease don’t necessarily seek medical treatment and thus are not tested. Yet they can and probably are, spreading the virus. Unless we start talking about mandatory testing (as presumably they have done in China and possibly Korea) testing and quarantining all who test positive, it isn’t particularly going to do much if anything to stop the spread.
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If the reports are trust half of the people show little to no symptoms so these people won’t be going into a doctor if they feel at worse they have a mild cold. The actual numbers everywhere are probably way higher and it seems to be extremely bad for the elderly hence what happened in the nursing home down the street here in Seattle.
Also saw were not one person under the age of 9 or 10 has died from the virus. So my advice if someone on here is elderly or has pre existing conditions and are not working don’t leave the house.
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testing isn’t about stopping the spread its about understand how bad the spread is and where to push resources.
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Exactly. So how do you go about testing people that are not sick enough to go see a doctor?
people shouldn’t hold off visiting the hospital if they show mild symptoms
same goes for the yearly flu.
the issue is what level of support system do we have to aid elderly people to avoid contact, if they are not living in assisted living they will need to run errands and get food.
Ya that’s a problem in the nursing homes the workers would need to be tested daily for it to be effective as well scrub down and shower and put on new clothes before taking a step to where the elderly are to 100% effective.
Two of my co-workers who have grandparents are delivering meals cleaning their house the whole 9 yards to take care of them. It is nice to hear stories like these and people are lucky to have a good family.
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It’s just something to bitch about mostly.
Treatment and prevention are the same with or without the test being done.
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That’s completely nuts. If we did that our hospitals would be collapsing under the weight of flu patients at the height of the season.
Even when ER’s were limited to actual emergencies sometimes you could be stuck waiting for hours before seeing a doc.
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You push the resources where you have the most severe cases regardless of how many people test positive.
I haven’t looked into it, but curious if other countries are making this as political as the U.S is? I can only imagine the fallout a president (regardless of party) would take if they quarantined the whole country as Italy just did.
Other than Italy I doubt it. Anything related to immigration has become pretty explosive there over the last year or two.
Germany has some pretty serious internal problems due to immigration as well. I would not be surprised to see it blow up if they don’t get a handle on things pretty quickly but Germany doesn’t seem as volatile.
So far though the outbreak hasn’t hit them as hard as Italy.
There is some debate but there are few countries on earth more divided politically then America.
Its almost flood season in Canada so the government is busy hoping around on a few issue Coronavirus, Flooding, oil price drop.
