Six Reasons People with Mild Symptoms of COVID-19 Should Not Seek Care or Get Tested

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森三中の黒沢さんに自宅隔離（様子見）を指示した保健所の指示は、正しい指示。
スウェーデンでもニューヨークでも同じ様に指示される。

「検査されないなんておかしい」
「感染者数を隠している」

と騒いでいる人は、リテラシーの低さを反省し恥じること。

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Dr. Tom Frieden on Six Reasons New Yorkers with Mild Symptoms of COVID-19 Should Not Seek Care or Get Tested
March 27, 2020

1. You use up medical equipment and tests others need more.

2. You might infect others as you travel to and seek care.

3. If you don’t have the infection, you could get it in the process of traveling and getting tested, especially since health care gets less safe when more people are waiting for it — including people with only mild symptoms.

4. It’s not going to change what you should do: Stay home and isolate yourself. Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19 should be assumed to have it. The test result won’t change what you or your doctor do.

5. The test can be negative even if you have the virus, leading you to infect others if you don’t stay isolated.

6. Right now, testing positive won’t lead to useful action or meaningful data: The Health Department won’t be able to trace your contacts or confirm where you were infected because too many people are positive, and because this would not be as important in fighting COVID-19 at present than other urgent work, including preventing and stopping outbreaks in nursing homes and hospitals.