Los Angeles County, home of nation's second-largest municipal health system, gives up on containing coronavirus, telling doctors to skip testing of some patients
Los Angeles County health officials advised doctors to give up on testing patients in the hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak, instructing them to test patients only if a positive result could change how they would be treated.
The department"is shifting from a strategy of case containment to slowing disease transmission and averting excess morbidity and mortality," according to the letter. Doctors should test symptomatic patients only when"a diagnostic result will change clinical management or inform public health response."
In addition to the lack of tests, public health agencies across the country lack the staff to trace the source of new cases, drastically reducing the chances of isolating people who have been exposed and thereby containing the outbreak.to federal grants meant to boost preparedness for a pandemic would mean there wouldn't be enough equipment and staff on hand to respond in the crucial, early stage. Those fears have come to fruition now, officials said.
They are not planning to test patients who have the symptoms but are otherwise healthy enough to be sent home to self-quarantine — meaning they may never show up in official tallies of people who tested positive.While county health officials are shifting their testing strategy, they are rapidly increasing other efforts to save lives.
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