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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are treatments being tried.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30071-0/fulltext

[quote]Patients diagnosed with viral pneumonia require isolation and SARS-CoV-2 tests (measure 3). Systemic and local respiratory defense mechanisms are compromised, resulting in bacterial co-infection[b] if early, effective antiviral treatment is not started[/b]. Empirical therapy consists of oral moxifloxacin or levofloxacin (consider tolerance) and arbidol. Arbidol is approved in China and Russia for influenza treatment. In-vitro studies showed that arbidol had inhibitory effects on SARS.2 Patients testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 are transferred to designated hospitals.[/quote][/quote]

You don't diagnose a viral pneumonia by the test the OP was asking about. If you have a viral pneumonia, that's different -- but it is not diagnosed by that test.

The article you cite is now out of date, because things are moving rapidly. Later research showed that chest CTs are not as sensitive as earlier thought. And chest CTs are hundreds of x-rays worth of radiation at once, raising your risk of developing cancer there.

This is a protocol suggested by these authors. It is not a treatment that is being tried in the US yet. A positive test would not have gotten this treatment for OP, unless she were in certain places in China (certainly not everywhere). It made sense in the context they were working in, but as the authors acknowledge, it would have to be adapted, because ti was specific to context. 
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