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A comment on Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive for coronavirus.

Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by adnzzzzZ on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:54PM (#22564290)
And Trudeau himself is not being tested: https://twitter.com/CameronAhmad/status/1238281503005642753. I don't understand why some governments seem so averse to testing in general and have really tight constraints around it. In comparison, Bolsonaro had an aid test positive for it and he's being tested with results coming tomorrow: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238232367006912514
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by giarc on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:02PM (#22564342)
It's optics. Every Canadian is being told that you won't be tested if you are asymptomatic. If he was to get tested, it shows a disparity in the system.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by Barrin92 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:56PM (#22564295)
if you're going to self isolate anyway there's not much point in testing I suppose other than for statistical purposes and at this point my guess would be that testing people on the frontlines is more important.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by 1998v2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:12PM (#22564395)
If he tests positive then the self quarantine he is under would expand to his contacts since Sophie returned.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by nathanaldensr on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:58PM (#22564303)
What "frontlines?" Everywhere are "frontlines" at this point.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by Barrin92 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:59PM (#22564314)
healthcare workers, public service workers, food, transportation, pharmaceutical and so on. People who need to definitely know if they are sick or not.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by pengaru on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:00PM (#22564329)
No point in wasting a test on someone you're assuming is and treating as infected.
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by abiogenesis on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:40PM (#22564519)
Who should we test then?
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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by pengaru on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:23AM (#22564700)
People with symptoms who have had no known contact with the infected, to determine if it's covid-19 or just something else?

Edit: I'm assuming we're talking about in the reality scenario where we don't have the testing capacity to test everyone. If you're not just testing the symptomatic, you're testing everyone who isn't already in the infected set, I don't think the US/Canada is prepared for that.

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Re:Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie tests positive f... by shp0ngle on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:57PM (#22564296)
I think US just doesn’t physically have enough tests.
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