Cleveland Clinic Discovers Five New Cases of COVID-19 in First Day of Internal Testing

[kpete]

Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic told CNBC Friday morning that the hospital system had discovered five positive cases of COVID-19 Thursday, the first day of its in-house testing process. (The remarks come at the tail end of the interview embedded above, ~7:15.)

Mihaljevic said that some of the new cases were patients who had alerted the hospital ahead of time because of known exposure, but "some of them walked into our emergency room."

These new cases, which are likely to be officially announced later Friday, are on top of five positive cases previously identified in the state: three in Cuyahoga County, one in Stark County and one in Trumbull County.

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The Clinic can currently test about 500 patients per day and hopes to be at 1,000/day capacity by next week. At a local press conference Thursday, Mihaljevic said that all COVID-19 testing would be free for insured and uninsured patients.


https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2020/03/13/cleveland-clinic-discovers-five-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-first-day-of-internal-testing

[gibraltar72]

1. I am encouraged by so many groups

doing the right thing without being ordered to. So unlike the Trump admenstruation. Happened to catch ESPN when they were announcing B10 halting tournament. They were talking to Bill Frieder. He said B10 has 14 of the top rated medical research facilities. They've been talking to Presidents and ADs they were gonna do the right thing.