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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 08, 2020, 01:34:37 pm ---
--- Quote ---huge numbers will not want to go to hospital to get tested
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Here, if you think you've got it you DO NOT go to your GP or hospital. Instead, you phone the NHS hotline and they take it from there. Isn't it the same down under?

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Yes, that's what the recommend. But if they suspect you I think you are liking going somewhere to get tested.
Probably not a big deal in a country like Australia with limited cases and a great health care system that isn't stretched, but in other places, I'd bet my bottom dollars there are many people who won't tell anyone.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2020, 07:53:50 pm ---[...] I was never even the slightest bit concerned. [about Y2K]

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Same here.  I was mostly either bemused or amused, sometimes both, sitting in meetings discussing the end of the world.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---if they suspect you I think you are liking going somewhere to get tested
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The way they've figured that here is to have a drive-through testing 'pod'. You roll up in your car, wind down the window and someone in full disaster-proof armour shoves a swab down your throat. You then drive home and wait for the black helicopter results.
EEVblog:
A couple of more schools in Sydney hit as predicted.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 08, 2020, 12:40:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on March 08, 2020, 11:14:44 am ---no-one is going to think "Oh, looks like I might have this killer virus - guess I'll just take an aspirin and stay in bed for a bit." What with the lurid headlines - even though they may not be deserved - if you think you've got it you're going to want it seen to.
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Nope, huge numbers will not want to go to hospital to get tested unless it gets bad or they know for fact they have had contact with someone knowingly infected. And even if you suspect it and you just have the usual flu like symptoms you get once or twice a year it's likely many will just sit it out thinking that the hospitals are where sick people are, and the last place they want to be at a time like this. Especially in highly infectious regions that systems are overrun. Don't underestimate the fear of going into a hospital to get checked and you don't have it and then you might contract it. Guaranteed this is happening in huge numbers in places like Wuhan.

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Not just there. I wouldn't go to the doctor, unless I have fever, cause they will look at me, "prescribe" Paracetamol and send me home. I can stay at home and tell my employer that I'm sick, no matter what the sickness is.

But as I understand, lots of the infected have mild symptoms.


--- Quote from: james_s on March 08, 2020, 06:28:47 pm ---Also with all the sick people going to the hospital trying to get tested that's the last place I want to be, if I didn't have it already then that's a good way to pick it up.

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There are countries, where infections you get in hospitals are more likely to kill you then car accidents.  But for example in Belgium, I went to the GP, and he wanted to shook hands with me. It was one of those cases, when both of us were just quietly standing there, thinking: "What is wrong with you?"
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