If you are worried you might have the coronavirus, pick up the phone before you seek medical treatment. The reason for this is twofold:
In very mild cases, your doctor might be able to give you advice on how to treat your symptoms at home without needing to see you in person, which would reduce the number of other people you expose.
"The vast majority of cases are going to be mild, and people are going to recover just like they do from a cold or flu-like illness," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an infectious diseases doctor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/03/coronavirus-symptoms-test/
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ok...about this article and others like the bolded part:
I have seen this quite a few times now how even known identified cases are being instructed to self-quarantine at home.
The problem I have with that is we already know this doesnt work to keep close family members and others from being infected as well. Here are three reasons it doesnt work.
1-People dont follow the rules of self quarantine (see link at bottom).
2-People make mistakes in the home that could cause family members to catch it.
"Can you bring me a drink?"
3-Others like the mailman that still hand deliver mail at the door, delivery people, Friends, etc. can be at risk approaching the front door to greet the occupants.
At least for US cities and elsewhere that are just identifying their first few cases, I feel they should be quarantining them in a proper setting that would ensure no contact with others until they start to test negative as we had seen some other places do. At least initially until there is too short of supply of proper quarantine places. I am pretty sure the infected person would most of the time be glad for the extra protection to keep his/her family members safe.
Self quarantining at home is proven to not work a lot of the times. Its proven by all the cases we heard about where family members or close contacts were also infected by a known infected person.
I mean like even in the article I shared yesterday. Sorry cant recall which article. It was the city's first identified cases and they told them to self isolate at home. Why let them go home to possibly infect their family members and then it spreads out to the public from the family members who are not in self quarantine.
Somewhere along the line, the message has become to allow positive infected coronavirus people to go on home so long as they dont need hospitalization. When places run out of beds or places to put folks, I can understand it. But not when a city gets their first cases and there should be better places to ensure that person does not infect others, let alone his own family members.
Its just not making any sense to me because in some cases, the US is taking extreme measures about not letting certain people enter the country or get off a cruise ship, but then when we finally identify real positive cases, its like so long as you are not needing hospital, then "Go ahead and go home and infect your wife, your children, any friends who may come by to visit, and then they can go out into the community for you to infect others."
Its insanity to me. When we run out of good places to be sure to isolate the infected person, then I would understand it, but not in the very first few cases we are seeing.
Im flabbergasted and at this point, Im accepting the US is now guaranteed to spread this community wide because the instructions the people are given to self quarantine with the virus is going to increase the spreading instead of trying to stop it.
When we see those cases of local transmission from an unknown source, this will be why.
JMO of course.
Including a sample link that proves people cannot and/or will not follow the self quarantine instructions. We have seen this sort of thing before. Its not the first time we have seen this. It just doesnt work.
Coronavirus: Missouri man breaks self-quarantine, goes to school dance
