What you don't test can't hurt you, right?

There must be other studies out there on this because I must have heard it 10 times this morning on the cable news, they are really stressing it.

I just finished a half hour ago with a telemedicine followup to an in person appt. in January, not related to coronavirus, but which had been canceled two times because of it. With a bigwig rheumatologist at Mt. Sinai main hospital in Manhattan. 

(Their telemed sucks, BTW, the software download is glitchy and feed and sound bad) she said I shouldn't be using the computer, works better on cell phones)

I just thought I would share the questions she asked at the end about coronavirus, filling in the answers on the computer, obviously being required by the hospital.

• Are you wearing a mask when you go out? (Then she added: you can make one, and she showed me a pleated one made from a scarf)
• Have you had a cough?
• Have you had nausea, vomiting or other gastrointestinal distress?
• Have you lost your sense of smell or taste?

Nothing about fever!

Oh and clearly she did not think accessing any on-site medical services would be wise for the foreseeable future. She made the next appt. for July. I could use a sonogram to more clearly diagnose something that was on an MRI and also physical therapy. She talked like those might be prescribed in July. Basically: you live with your ailments until this has calmed down.

Thread of tweets, good description of what it's like to be in hospital now for NON covid-19 from issue someone who got out alive. He was in Philly, not NYC: