My family’s personal experience with a potential Coronavirus infection - not good

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Anonymous wrote:It would be a complete waste of resources to sart testing every person who has anxiety and thinks that any symptom could be covid 19. People are still getting to catch the millions of other viruses out there and unless there is a hot spot or known infector, those with anxiety are just going to have to live with their fears that thy are all potentially infected with covid 19. CDC is not conspiring against the public - put the conspiracy theories away. There are experts in public heqlth who research and study pandemics and disease transmission for a living. You may think you personally know more than all the experts but you don't.

My husband is a doctor with an MD and a PhD and is furious too. He thinks criteria for testing should be more inclusive.

What kind of doctor is he? Is he an ID doc? Does he work in public health? Because if not, his opinion is pretty much irrelevant.

He’s a virologist, a specialist in the study/ treatment of viruses and viral epidemics. His opinion counts much more than others’, but he’s not the one making decisions. Read the piece in the NYT, where a lot of doctors are very frustrated with the CDC.

You need to wake up and smell the incompetence of our public health officials, PP.

Oh wait, you mean firing everyone who knew how to handle a pandemic wasn’t a good idea?

Shocking

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Watch this for 2-3 mins from the 55 seconds mark.

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I just read that NYT article. This is absurd. I’m not panicking but I expect better from the CDC!

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The COVID19 test is not really a single test, it is a series of molecular biology experiments that typically take 1-2 days for a skilled laboratory scientist to perform (RNA extraction, RT-PCR, gel electrophoresis). Add in additional steps for self-protection and equipment/lab decontamination, the whole testing process becomes enormously time-consuming, costly, and complicated. Probably due to fears of contamination, the US only allows this test to be performed by a limited number of specially certified labs. And it sounds like a patient may need multiple tests for a conclusive result. Given all that, I'm not surprised that testing isn't more available.

I'm sorry though for all you and your family have gone through. I'm sure everyone involved wishes that tests were more readily available. I know if I were in your shoes, I would want COVID19 testing done too.

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Anonymous wrote:The COVID19 test is not really a single test, it is a series of molecular biology experiments that typically take 1-2 days for a skilled laboratory scientist to perform (RNA extraction, RT-PCR, gel electrophoresis). Add in additional steps for self-protection and equipment/lab decontamination, the whole testing process becomes enormously time-consuming, costly, and complicated. Probably due to fears of contamination, the US only allows this test to be performed by a limited number of specially certified labs. And it sounds like a patient may need multiple tests for a conclusive result. Given all that, I'm not surprised that testing isn't more available.

I'm sorry though for all you and your family have gone through. I'm sure everyone involved wishes that tests were more readily available. I know if I were in your shoes, I would want COVID19 testing done too.

This is how Korea has done it. I don't see why the US can't step up its game big time:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/south-korea-takes-fast-food-approach-to-covid-19-testing-1.4835570

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Italy, S Korea, Japan, China, they are all testing many many more than we are each day.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the US under-testing so we can pretend it isn’t here?

So CDC can pretend they did not bungle the test kits.

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The CDC is to blame here. It botched the first batch of diagnostic tests it shipped out to states, and enforces very restrictive criteria for testing, in part due to the small number of available tests, because it failed to produce enough working ones.

This is disastrous, because the first people with coronavirus should be quarantined as soon as we know they have it. If we wait until the virus circulates, like we’re doing now, the epidemic will be severe instead of mild; the healthcare system may be strained beyond capacity; and there will be many more preventable deaths. Not just people dying from coronavirus, but people who fall ill or become injured from other causes and cannot receive the usual standard of care.

I expected better from the CDC. Right now we’re just as bad as all the countries. We’ve learnt nothing, despite having more than a month to prepare.

- microbiologist

I totally agree. I am so disappointment with CDC. Always trusted them, will never trust them again.

They could have just issued the test kits from WHO but no, they had to reinvent the wheel and develop their own useless test kit, and insisting on taking forever to fix it.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch this video

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/02/coronavirus-testing-emergency-room-doctor-cdc-department-health-squawk-box.html?__source=sharebar%7Cfacebook&par=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR36wETv6QhBOAAFHfM8jPcmXVzKg3etXPKyyBafAzJbhyWWd6Tb4Ttuexc

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https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-test

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Gluten free food helps a little with any lung congestion because gluten thickens the mucus.

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That was an interesting video. Doctor sounded very certain that there would be school closings and that people should not believe what the Trump administration is telling us about how this will all pass.

On the good news front, the doctor thinks that the fatality rate is lower than current estimates.

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Anonymous wrote:Gluten free food helps a little with any lung congestion because gluten thickens the mucus.

This is the dumbest thing I have read next to Pence leading the Coronavirus effort.

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Anonymous wrote:What makes you think he doesn't have the pneumonia he was diagnosed with? Sounds like it explains his symptoms and is 1000x more likely than covid 19.

I don't understand why he is so adamant it is corona virus and not pneumonia and why the family agrees?

What are you talking about? COVID-19 isn't an alternative to pneumonia. It is a pneumonia. There also are non-COVID-19 pneumonias.