"Health officials in NY, California and other hard-hit areas are restricting testing to health workers and people who are hospitalized, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost and the country is moving into a new phase of the pandemic response."
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"As cases spike sharply, they're hunkering down for an onslaught, directing scarce resources where they are needed most to save people’s lives. Instead of encouraging broad testing of the public, they’re focused on conserving masks, ventilators, ICU beds."
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"People with a manageable fever and cough who aren’t at high risk should assume they have it and not seek testing.
Doing so exposes health workers administering tests and uses up protective gear."
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Doing so exposes health workers administering tests and uses up protective gear."
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"The assumption is anyone with fever, cough, respiratory symptom, flu-like illness, the assumption is they have this,” he said, based on the prevalence of community transmission in NY. “It’s very likely you have it. There’s no benefit for you to test.”
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