Outstanding!

Hope they're not tracking much data from that since I dummy tested a few scenarios.

willjohnathan said:

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I only have a cough and thought it would tell me not to worry. Said my symptoms were consistent with Covid.

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Depending on your age/comorbidities that may be the only symptom you have. The major benefit of this site will be helping people to decide when to seek a higher level of care and keeping people from getting others sick.

Nice thanks for sharing!

I realize this checker is specifically designed for the 18+ age group...

Anecdotally, we've had 2 Ped pneumonias that has presented as dry cough and Intermittent fever that didn't have SOB until late- normal crap is still out there and dangerous but treatable and important to catch in time. And the listed symptom checker makes it concerning that they would tell an 18 year old with CAP to stay at home until SOB develops because he is low risk. Just fuel for the fire and things for others to consider as well. Shoot- in one kid we even sent them for swabs and had positive flu B- and those symptoms fall in line with regular flu- telemedicine makes lack of exam difficult to catch the normal bad crap. Short of swabs and cxr on everybody- what are the rest of y'all doing?

If it helps, I'm the same way. I think it's just anxiety. When mine comes, it feels like I can't inhale deeply enough. But when I work on staying calm or I get distracted with other things, it goes away.

But the more I think about the coronavirus stuff, or the more I focus and worry on the shortness of breath, it'll get worse....

FDXAg said:

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If it helps, I'm the same way. I think it's just anxiety. When mine comes, it feels like I can't inhale deeply enough. But when I work on staying calm or I get distracted with other things, it goes away.

But the more I think about the coronavirus stuff, or the more I focus and worry on the shortness of breath, it'll get worse....

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I've dealt with that feeling my whole life because of having bad anxiety and I assure you it's 100% in your mind. You don't have actual shortness of breath.

Thanks for the reply. Rural med is going to get hairy in New Mexico and I assume the smaller towns of most of the country as well.


My office is a 3 person group, and 3 total Peds clinics having 7 providers -only 4 docs- in the area (all independent but working to stay on the same page here), we are all stressed by this issue- we had another clinic but the 82 year old running it Understandably closed his doors until this blows over. Have enough PPE for maybe 10 exams per clinic and only option would be to ER dump ( and only 2 ERs located in the county separated by 30 miles), and so we are trying our best to figure it out as we go and catch what we need to an not have everything go to the ER.

If we think we need testing (strep/flu/ cxr), we are holding an order with mask and having them get it placed on their car windshield with them still inside and instructions to place the mask on their kid and use one of the 2 hospital labs (Tricore isn't doing any swabs as they don't have any PPE). State just mandated all providers notify the public health office of what PPE we do have in case the hospitals need more. Our entire county only has 50 or so swabs (70,000 plus people) and this far have found one case- a fatality that presented late and died 12 hours later... and denied fever/cough/sob to the ems who brought him, to ER check in staff, and to ED providers who saw him... creating an exposure to an entire ER staff that really doesn't have loads of replacements. So that scenario is what we are trying to prevent- saving all our resources and localizing them as can be... hunkered down and waiting.

I appreciate everyone sharing what they are doing seeing as how telemedicine and it's "practice" leaves loads to be desired for quality patient care.