Re:CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, Ca...
by jacquesm on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:49PM
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From the point of view of the patient you don't 'just' have pneumonia. It's a pretty heavy thing to go through and may cause lasting damage to your lung capacity and ability to deal with future infections, the only upside is you can't spread it around.
Which is a crap shoot to begin with since the symptoms are fever, coughing and shortness of breath. A lot of the original patients were misdiagnosed as just having pneumonia since it has the same symptoms.
There's still a TON of misinformation out there as well. Just like in the Times today where they said in one sentence:
Yet the patient tested positive, and may be the first person to be infected through community spread in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
So then, they don't know where he got it then? Wow, that must be serious, right? But wait, this is the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH:
C.D.C. officials said it was possible the patient was exposed to a returning traveler who was infected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/health/coronavirus-testin...
They first say its the first patient who was infected through community spread, then back off the very next sentence to say its actually possible he was infected by someone else? I'm not sure how this type of reporting is helping anything, other than by spreading fear, which during an epidemic is exactly what you don't want.