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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
How many pure ILI cases were rolled into presumed C-19 cases? Makes sense to treat anyone with ILI symptoms as C-19 if tests for the latter aren't available or individual results are inconclusive when it comes to treatment. But that doesn't seem.. helpful when it comes to tracking the overall prevalence of C-19.
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It’s a good surveillance type of way to look I guess.
My problem with treating it all as Covid is that it really shouldn’t change protocol. You should theoretically be using universal protocols for anyone woth a potential infectious disease.
We were taught to essentially view every patient as having HIV or hep b just to get that thought process going