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If you are still fighting for wide-spread testing.

If you are fighting for mobile testing, drive-through testing, walk-in testing.

Then you are fighting the wrong fight.

That fight is over.

And if it continues it will harm public health. 1/
First and foremost, for someone with mild #covid19 symptoms (high fever, dry cough), a positive test gives ZERO useful information. It changes nothing about the course of treatment. They should rest and heal at home. A test result doesn’t change that. 2/
And there are many other problems with pushing wide-spread testing:

* You are telling people with #covid19 to travel to a testing site, potentially exposing others

* You are sending healthy people out to a place where they could get infected 3/
* Anyone who gets a false negative (this happens) will incorrectly believe they can be in public and may thus infect others.

* You are diverting medical staff from where they need to be: hospitals

and...
* You are taking lab resources away from those who really need tests
4/
Only people who are so sick they need to be hospitalized should be tested. In those cases a diagnosis can indeed help direct treatment. Leave the testing for them. 5/
So what SHOULD you be fighting for? You should be screaming at the feds to organize mass production of ventilators, masks, face shields, surgical gloves and protective gowns. You should be demanding that the Army Corps build expanded hospital capacity in NY and elsewhere. 6/
To recap: Don’t be a general fighting the last war. The battle for universal testing is over. Continuing it will hurt us in the real fight ahead. 7/7
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