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2020-03-17T01:16:45+00:00
L.A. County gives up on containing COVID-19, tells doctors to skip testing of some patients
机翻
[quote]洛杉矶县放弃包含COVID-19的通知，告诉医生跳过对某些患者的检测
美国第二大市政卫生系统告诉其工作人员，它实际上是放弃了遏制冠状病毒爆发的希望，并指示医生如果阳性结果不会改变他们的治疗方式，则不要对有症状的患者进行检查。
该指南是由洛杉矶县卫生服务部于周四发送给其医生的，其原因是患者拥挤和缺乏检测，这可能使得很难确切知道洛杉矶县有多少人感染了该病毒。
这封信说，该部门“正在从遏制病例的策略转变为减慢疾病传播并避免过多的发病率和死亡率”。只有在“诊断结果会改变临床管理或告知公众健康应对措施”时，医生才应对有症状的患者进行检查。
该指南以书面形式确定了一直以来的现实。全国范围内缺乏检测手段意味着许多怀疑患有COVID-19的患者尚未得到实验室的确诊。[/quote]原文
[quote]The nation’s second-largest municipal health system has told its staff that it is essentially abandoning hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak and instructed doctors not to bother testing symptomatic patients if a positive result won’t change how they would be treated.
The guidance, sent by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to its doctors on Thursday, was prompted by a crush of patients and shortage of tests, and could make it difficult to ever know precisely how many people in L.A. County contracted the virus.
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.”
The guidance sets in writing what has been a reality all along. The shortage of tests nationwide has meant that many patients suspected of having COVID-19 have not had the diagnosis confirmed by a laboratory.[/quote][url]https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-gives-up-on-containing-coronavirus-tells-doctors-to-skip-testing-of-some-patients/[/url]
机翻
[quote]洛杉矶县放弃包含COVID-19的通知，告诉医生跳过对某些患者的检测
美国第二大市政卫生系统告诉其工作人员，它实际上是放弃了遏制冠状病毒爆发的希望，并指示医生如果阳性结果不会改变他们的治疗方式，则不要对有症状的患者进行检查。
该指南是由洛杉矶县卫生服务部于周四发送给其医生的，其原因是患者拥挤和缺乏检测，这可能使得很难确切知道洛杉矶县有多少人感染了该病毒。
这封信说，该部门“正在从遏制病例的策略转变为减慢疾病传播并避免过多的发病率和死亡率”。只有在“诊断结果会改变临床管理或告知公众健康应对措施”时，医生才应对有症状的患者进行检查。
该指南以书面形式确定了一直以来的现实。全国范围内缺乏检测手段意味着许多怀疑患有COVID-19的患者尚未得到实验室的确诊。[/quote]原文
[quote]The nation’s second-largest municipal health system has told its staff that it is essentially abandoning hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak and instructed doctors not to bother testing symptomatic patients if a positive result won’t change how they would be treated.
The guidance, sent by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to its doctors on Thursday, was prompted by a crush of patients and shortage of tests, and could make it difficult to ever know precisely how many people in L.A. County contracted the virus.
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.”
The guidance sets in writing what has been a reality all along. The shortage of tests nationwide has meant that many patients suspected of having COVID-19 have not had the diagnosis confirmed by a laboratory.[/quote][url]https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-gives-up-on-containing-coronavirus-tells-doctors-to-skip-testing-of-some-patients/[/url]