How medical pros decide whether to test someone for COVID-19

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Now that test kits are more widely available for COVID-19, the new coronavirus, how are health professionals deciding whether someone should be tested?

Below is a checklist form they are using. It’s provided by the Washington State Department of Health. It might be useful for prospective patients, too.

After answering questions about a person’s health profile, the form lists steps to be taken if the patient qualifies for additional routine testing, including how to isolate a potentially infected person and to protect health-care workers.

If a patient is tested for the coronavirus, the Snohomish Health District recommends immediate isolation:

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/how-medical-pros-decide-whether-to-test-someone-for-covid-19/

[uppityperson]

1. This will be evolving as things, well, evolve.

When UW testing ramps up and there is a more accurate view of how widespread it is, these guidelines will be changing. I attended a 2 hr webinar today with CDC, wa Doh and many more professionals, for health care people (esp long term care). The most interesting thing was half the people may be asymptomatic, and contagious.

I think it's very widespread. IMO