Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Pyro as Bill said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Well I assume a lot of the testing is for people that are actually sick. So in that case, yes it's still worth knowing whether it is covid19, or just a regular cold/flu.

Why? If you have symptoms you should be isolating regardless.

If you're a key worker then obviously knowing whether or not you can continue doing your essential job is important and that's why they had priority testing if they showed symptoms.

Everyone else can chill the fuck out and take the antibody test in 21 days which will give them a more accurate result than the covid test.

My brother just wasted a test because he was offered one and took it because he felt a bit dehydrated. It came back negative.

We need to save them so we have as many as possible available for track n trace.

What's the point of saving tests when you can only process a limited amount? You can save millions of tests for later but when your testing capacity is only (e.g.) 50k a day you will have a huge amount of unused testing kits at the end of the crisis.