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08-27-2020, 09:02 AM | #43711 |
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If the health department calls you and tells you were in close contact with an infected person you need to go get a test whether you are showing symptoms or not. This is basic stuff.
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08-27-2020, 09:02 AM | #43712 |
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08-27-2020, 09:02 AM | #43713 | |
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The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association called for the “immediate reversal” of the update in a joint statement. “It is essential that public health guidelines be rooted in the best available scientific evidence,” the two groups said. “Testing asymptomatic individuals who have been exposed to a person with COVID-19 remains a critical evidence-based strategy for containing the pandemic and reducing transmission.” and "I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is," Fauci added. |
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08-27-2020, 09:04 AM | #43714 | ||
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08-27-2020, 09:05 AM | #43715 | |
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I'm skeptical they're really spreading it that much, but thats the idea behind mass testing. Gotta know where it's at. |
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08-27-2020, 09:06 AM | #43716 |
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08-27-2020, 09:07 AM | #43717 | |
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We have probably dealt with close to 100 close contact scenarios and the health departments did not test a single person unless they became symptomatic. This is across Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma from a state perspective and 5 or 6 county health departments. By the time you wait long enough to definitely determine the test would be accurate the quarantine time will have expired and if you have been asymptomatic you don't need a test. At that point you may as well do an antibody test. People went from bitching about a back log of testing to bitching about this stuff. |
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08-27-2020, 09:07 AM | #43718 | |
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Now, if I have no symptoms and the person I work next to tests positive then I think I should go get a test, I agree. But if I am not showing any symptoms and I may have possibly been exposed then yeah practically speaking it's a waste. |
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08-27-2020, 09:07 AM | #43719 |
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Again mass testing has nothing to do with this subject.(CDC changes)
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08-27-2020, 09:08 AM | #43720 |
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08-27-2020, 09:11 AM | #43721 |
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08-27-2020, 09:12 AM | #43722 | |
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Oh I agree. The goal posts are moving fast enough to be confused with a game of musical chairs. The fact is people need to start getting a grip that "cases" does not mean what we thought it meant 6 months ago. Particularly in my area. Cases are in "the red zone" yet fortunately for most and not so fortunate for the elderly is the death count has literally not changed in months in the age groups 69 and under. So if I see the largest age group to get the virus in my area is 20-29 yet only one person in that group has died in 6 months there are multiple reasons why people won't and maybe even shouldn't waste their time getting tested. The media and some others still want to equate cases to a death sentence. When that gets challenged then it goes to anecdotal evidence of possible residual effects. And round and around it goes, deaths-cases-residual effects-deaths-cases-residual effects. |
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08-27-2020, 09:14 AM | #43723 |
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so my co-worker after being down with the flu for a few days is back to work and 2 negative Covid tests. The flu has not gone away.
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08-27-2020, 09:15 AM | #43724 |
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08-27-2020, 09:16 AM | #43725 |
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I think if they stopped testing asymptomatic people it would have little or no effect on stopping the spread. You could argue it could even help. When you do not know that asymptomatic people are even big players in the spread, eliminating them from the pool would help you guesstimate better the impact that they do have. Would better allow us to determine if this segment is really the bogeyman that many portray them to be.
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