Today I was bombarded with information. CDC. Hospital. State health department. Mike Pence. A local daffodil farmer. They were great. I am now on:
1. The email they send out with any updates. 2. The weekly conference call to labs, hospitals and other practices that I was left off. 3. Will be getting free N95 masks, gowns, gloves and face shields. 4. Information as to how to test patients.
Travel history to China. That's like saying you road up travelled in a bus from NYC to LA in a bus where everyone else had Influenza A and RSV. Try South Korea, Italy, etc. I would think that once there are four or five confirmed cases in a state especially within 50 miles radius that cough and fever would suffice. Hell we test for RSV in infants six months and younger and Influenza in those with cough, fever and malaise, aches and pains (many diagnosed clinically). Not a lot of deaths in those cohorts. I would say that once there are confirmed cases, it will be hard to talk parents out of a Covid-19 test in their children if they are symptomatic.
