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I heard this on "The Daily" on NPR, Thursday 3/12/20. This is how I remember hearing it --
China - they measure everyone's temperature -- when you enter a building, when you get home (a committee of the apartment complex takes your temperature), and so on. If you have a fever, you are separated, and then dealt with by medical people dressed head-to-toe in protective gear. If they have a flu test available, they administer that. They do a white blood cell count. They ask questions about symptoms. If you are still a coronavirus suspect, they do a CT scan on you -- these are portable CT scanners that do about 200 scans a day, not like the big ones in hospitals that take 30 minutes or so. If you are still a suspect, you end up in some portable hospital. There is no home quarantine -- they found that didn't work as they found that about 90% of new cases were in family clusters. In other words people who were home quarantined infected household members at a high rate
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We aren't going to get a grip on this thing until we quit kidding ourselves that all we have to do is cough in our elbows, sing happy birthday while washing our hands, and limit gatherings to no more than 250 people 
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Here, in the right-wing hellhole we call the United States,
thanks Dennis Donovan for the below posting which I trimmed a bit
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213090353
https://www.thedailybeast.com/terrified-doctors-sound-alarm-on-coronavirus-chaos-nationwide
“I desperately want to be tested, for the sake of my patients,” one doctor said.
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One doctor based in Oklahoma City, who asked to remain anonymous because she was not cleared to speak to the press and did not want to draw undue attention to her local clinic, told The Daily Beast on Friday that she had symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and had not been tested, despite the fact that she treats high-risk patients.
“I have a minimal cough, some body aches, some fatigue and chills—but no fever, no runny nose, and I can suppress my cough,” said the doctor. “If I don’t take care of my patients, it creates a huge problem, but if this is COVID-19, I could easily kill them, no matter how well I wash my hands.”
