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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
it'll be stupid once there is a meaningful supply of readily available tests that can be quickly processed.
But right now there's still a backlog and those 'instant read' sort of tests seem to be trickling through at best. From what I can see the vast majority of results are in the 4 day range still for a variety of reasons.
With that being the case you still only test the clearly symptomatic (or, IMO, healthcare professionals) and realize that in the 4 days it'll take to get a result on the rest, your hand will have already likely been played for you. For the vast VAST majority of those cases they'll have settled into a 'stay home and feel like shit but there's little to do beyond that' realm or they'll need to be admitted for more significant treatment.
Unless/until we can actually administer tests quickly enough to get results that will determine the course of treatment - there's real benefit to not clogging up labs that could be addressing more critical cases or front-line healthcare providers.
It's essentially triage on a testing scale, for lack of a better way of putting it.
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It seems that it would be a choice on their part since NY which has more than half the entire amount of cases is still testing people. It would make no sense that LA could not test people.