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Anonymous wrote: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.

Who has that much sick leave, especially if you happen to be working class or in a service profession? Their boss will expect them to come into work sick.

Anonymous wrote:Please add your voice to the discussion if in entire DMV area schools should close NOW closing


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/862354.page

Anonymous wrote:Patients are most contagious when showing symptoms, they are now saying

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Who has that much sick leave, especially if you happen to be working class or in a service profession? Their boss will expect them to come into work sick.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote:If there are truly enough tests now this hoarding is bizarre. Clearly patients will be anxious and many would want an unwarranted test but if the treating physician wants one it makes no sense to withhold (unless the shortage is ongoing.)

Labcorp and Quest are doing the tests. DC doctors don't have to relay on the DC Department of Health to do the test, or at least I hope so.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote:That press conference wasn’t very reassuring.

It disgusted me. It makes no logical sense to bother with tracing on the hospitalized male who tested positive, yet refuse to test segments of the population that likely would test positive. No, we will just send them home and pretend they are negative and not worry about their tracing.

And not one of those officials seem sympathetic to the patients at all. The one doctor was just smirking.

Didn’t watch the presser - are they even contact tracing for this guy or nah? Sounds like he was out and about from last week until he was hospitalized this wk so I’m thinking they’d like to know where he works, if he went in, did he go places on the weekend etc?

Also different question — where was the AIPAC event? Was there a conference hotel?

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo breaking news is that DC now has 2 cases.

Who is the second case?

WAPO just says someone traveling in DC

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That press conference wasn’t very reassuring.

It disgusted me. It makes no logical sense to bother with tracing on the hospitalized male who tested positive, yet refuse to test segments of the population that likely would test positive. No, we will just send them home and pretend they are negative and not worry about their tracing.

And not one of those officials seem sympathetic to the patients at all. The one doctor was just smirking.