Name: On the front line of fighting the coronavirus
Uploaded: 2020-03-22T18:50:18.000Z
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next, right here on this live edition of 2020 fighting fears on the front lines and right in the hospital emergency rooms across this country and here in New York City.

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Doctor John D'Angelo, who's in charge of preparedness at the emergency departments at 18 affiliated hospitals here in the New York area.

Doctor, thanks for joining us tonight, and I wanted to get right to the bottom line here.

There's been so much talk about whether or not there are enough testing kits around this country.

Do you have the test kits you need tonight?

And are people allowed to come into the E R to get tested?

So currently all the testing is being done through local health departments and the CDC.

The test kits have been released this past week, and those kids were needed for our labs to start preparing to be able to run the test ourselves.

And that's a that's a process that takes validation set up of the left.

So we're hoping by next week to do our own testing eso at the moment.

No one's doing testing other than state, local, state and local health departments.

That's really interesting minute our ability of the test.

I'm sure there are a lot of nerves and you have to balance who you treat and who you suggest to be tested when they do come into the E.

The tests are being done in conjunction with speaking to the Department of Health and at this point mostly being reserved for those at most risk for severe disease.

So those with mild to moderate disease, a mild flu like illness to date, we haven't really been testing, were just given good instructions on home isolation, and we'll have to manage themselves.

But the testing has really been reserved for those people who are at most risk, Doctor, I know you are prepared every season for the most severe cases of the flu.

Do you think you're already starting to see the beginning of this here in New York.

Yeah, we're already starting to see the beginning of it.

There's been a few cases in the areas, you know.

It's not been overwhelming yet, as Faras Volume is concerned, although there's a lot of anxiety out there.

John D'Angelo with us tonight, Doctor General, we appreciate what you're doing there on the front lines, and I want to bring this question back to Gen.

Because how do you know when it's time to get to the emergency room or to your doctor?

We mentioned that the temperature of 100.4.

Well, I think the really important thing David is people shouldn't try to be their own doctor or nurse here, so you should be, you know, in communication with your doctor.

But I was just talking to Dr Simone Weil's You're an infectious disease specialist from South Shore Health right outside of Boston.

Tell me how you're advising people to kind of go through that decision, whether they should stay at home or whether they should come in.

So the patients that we tried to get into the hospital.

I mean very hard time breathing, very high fevers, having a hard time taking care of themselves at home.

Do you want to come in because we want to assess you to see how you're doing?

And certainly, obviously someone with a weekend Yoon system who's pregnant with any chronic or pre existing medical conditions those air people that you want to see in the hospital?

We don't want them to be at home, and I think it's really important.

Also David, to remember that these ears are treating patients with heart attacks, strokes, accidents.

And so it's a balance between taking care of someone who might be sick with a virus and taking care of the patients that are always packed in t ours in general.

So thanks to Bill from the whole team over there, more questions to come.

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