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Is your new cough due to coronavirus or just allergies? Should you escape the grocery store (according to all the appropriate protocols) -or Could you infect 10 people with something? Covid-19 tests can help you make the decisions responsible for your health and health of others - and other tests are offered in your area every day. Here's how to know when you should be tested.

TheCDCstipulates that people with symptoms or combinations of symptoms can have COVID-19: coughing and shortness of breath or at least two of the following symptoms: fever, chills, shakes repeated with chills, muscle pain, headaches, evils of throat and new loss of taste or smell. If you meet these, ask your medicine provider if you should be tested.

Note also: "Given the high rate of false negatives, up to 30%, I would recommend to repeat a 3 to 5 days such clinically not better," says Dr. Cathy Wang, MD, advisor forFruit healthandCOVIDMD.

"If you are a health worker, a worker in a prison or a retirement home or a first respondent, and you have a cough with fever, you should be tested," saysDr. Leann Poston. "A positive test with symptoms says you have COVID-19 and should isolate yourself from others."

"If you have secondary medical conditions, know your COVID status if you have fever and cough, can guide decision-making in terms of your other conditions," says Dr. Poson. For example, seniors, people with HIV, asthma, cancer, diabetes and other underlying conditions are more at risk.

It is possible that "you are part of a community-wide screening program and that you have been invited to take a test to determine the impact of CVIV-19's positivity in the Community," saidDr. Christine Traxler. "This is an epidemiological test used for public health and research rather than for your own health, although if you test positive, you must self-insulate for two weeks."

"If you have fevers or unwanted fevers despite the use of antipyretics for example.Ibuprofen or Tylenol, and / or unexplained appearance of breathlessness or breathable difficulty, you should have a test, "saysKoye OyerindeMD RDPH, a pediatrician and health policy expert in Minot, ND.

"You may want to test if you live with vulnerable people from parents and grandparents, others with severe chronic diseases - asthma, diabetes, hypertension and immunosuppressive diseases - cancer, AIDS and transplant therapy, "explains Dr. Oyerinde. "Children under five can also be vulnerable."

"Hospitalized patients should have CVIV-19 tests because test results can help guide medical management," says Dr. Poson. In addition, if doctors know you have tested positive, they can wear appropriate personal protective equipment (EPP).

In addition, if you encounter the following symptoms, the CDC recommends that you consult medical attention immediately: "In the hospital, when someone presents with fever, cough, shortness of breath and / or diarrhea that n. At no alternative diagnostic explanation, especially in higher-risk people, so I will test this person, "says Dr. Lili Barsky. "However, it is very important to know that while you expect the test result, you stay a person under investigation (PUI). During this period, the assessment and management of other possible diagnoses can be deferred and / or retained . " In addition, if you encounter the following symptoms, the CDC recommends that you consult immediately a doctor:

• Difficulty breathing
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• New confusion or incapacity to arouse
• Blueish or face lips

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