We can’t begin to control this epidemic unless we know where this is and how many cases we’ve got.”
told U.N. delegations they should, why do we need to know who actually does?
, which can be used to help treat severe cases of the infection. If we know which areas will be hardest hit now and in the weeks to come, we can allocate federal funds and supplies to those areas so they’ll be able to administer better care, Gonsalves said. “It could be New York. It could be L.A. It could be Chicago. It could be St. Louis,” Gonsalves said. “Population isn’t a great way to predict who will have the greatest number of cases per capita.”Along with allowing us to better allocate resources, knowing who is or is not infected with the virus will allow hospitals to use the equipment and supplies they already have more efficiently, according to Dr. W. Graham Carlos, chief of internal medicine at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis.
While waiting for test results, patients have to be treated as if they are infectious, Carlos said, meaning health care workers have to use personal protective equipment like gowns, gloves and face masks whenever dealing with that patient. If a patient doesn’t have COVID-19, those supplies could have been saved for someone who does.drive-through test sites like in South Korea
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