Buchanan County case classification (4-14-20)

Buchanan County case classification (4-14-20)

Cases are being classified in buchanan county is now changing...following cdc guidance health department will have two different categories of how covid 19 cases are being reported.

Confirmed cases and probable cases.

Confirmed cases are where a person has been tested for the virus and the lab test has come back positive.

Probable cases, the new second category, is where a person meets clinical criteria such as showing specific symptoms related the virus and has had close contact with a confirmed or probable case, but have not been tested for the coronavirus.

Which category a case falls under depends on whether or not the person has been tested.

(sot "so, if they meet a very specific definition, then they can fall under what is called a probable simply means, we're really sure that you have it, test to confirm that you have it so we confirmed, but we can all you probable.") because of the new category system for covid, buchanan county might see a jump in the number of coronavirus cases , not because there's a huge spike in people contracting the virus, but now there's more people who can be labelled as probably having it.

You cannot self diagnose yourself as a probable cause a person would need to speak with the health departmetn's communicable disease nurse to be classified as a probable case st.

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