Breaking News ‘Don't You Think This Whole COVID-19 Thing is Overblown?’

Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 4A

Mosley, Mark

Introduction

I work in an emergency department in Wichita, KS. That may not matter, but it's important to have context. We have one confirmed case of COVID-19 (from a cruise ship) as I'm writing this on March 19. But we are testing hardly anyone—yet. Patients and friends ask several times a day, “Don't you think this whole thing is overblown?”.

Keywords

Clinical aspects, diagnosis, treatment