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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like they are only testing people experiencing actual complications. Which I kind of understand, you don't need the entire city to be showing up to the ER for a minor cold just to confirm whether or not you are infected. Just stay home until you are either recovered or need to seek medical care.[/quote]

My understanding - having read everything I can on this recently - is that they really need to test extensively in order to get a handle on the scope of the problem. They can’t make intelligent decisions about school closings, businesses shutting down, etc unless they know the scope.

Obviously closing schools has a host of downsides, but if the alternative is a lot of people dying from an overloaded health care system they might need to pull the trigger on it.

Without data, they are flying blind.

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Adding that having everyone go to an ER probably isn’t a good idea, what Korea is doing with drive by testing seems really on point. [/quote]

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