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

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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