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On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also expanded its criteria for who should be tested. Physicians should now determine whether any patient with severe pneumonia symptoms should be tested, regardless of their travel history, the agency advised.

So still only testing people with severe pneumonia? That's going to miss 80% of the cases...which means they're spreading it around.

18 posted on 03/01/2020 7:30:12 PM PST by DouglasKC
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Which means that the vast majority of cases are self limited. Please recall that Such Korea analysis points toward a death rate of 0.47% — in line with SARS, MERS and Influenza


23 posted on 03/01/2020 7:35:38 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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With a two week latency period that will miss about 95% of the cases.

Two weeks from now, testing will be like counting the amount of the national debt—of geek interest only....


39 posted on 03/01/2020 9:12:18 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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