Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
by hcknwscommenter on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:42AM
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If you are in ICU with flu symptoms, they don't just shrug when the rapid influenza test comes back negative. There are reflex tests that can be run to confirm positive or negative.
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Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
by vanniv on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:58AM
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Yep.
Critical cases and fatal cases are way more likely to be detected for this reason -- but during the 3 weeks I was talking about, it was believed that there was no COVID in the US, except for folks evacuated from China to quarantine sites.
During that time unexplained pneumonia leading to death -- especially in an older individual -- would likely not have been thought to be COVID, and would just have gone on the books as pneumonia.