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Coronavirus Testing – March 16 Q&A with the CDC’s Jay Butler, MD
32 minutes Posted Mar 17, 2020 at 3:00 pm.
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Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.