Dr. Jeff Duchin, Seattle King County Public Health: as test more, likely to identify more cases.
notes testing criteria has broadened, but is still limited, based on local lab capacity. (was previously limited to narrow criteria, like travel to China).
notes testing criteria has broadened, but is still limited, based on local lab capacity. (was previously limited to narrow criteria, like travel to China).
Washington state public health official: started testing in state public health lab yesterday. do have authority to test what we want to test, but still largely following CDC guidance. no current backlog. working to test up to 200 specimens/day
Evergreen Dr. Francis Riedo: man who died was chronically ill, had underlying risk factors for severe disease. had unexplained respiratory infection. at present time do not see connection between the 2 (other person who tested positive for covid-19 at evergreen critical care unit
