OneManGang
Veteran
Pneumonia is usually coded language for aids

AIDS patients usually get pneumonia from a certain bacteria that people with normal functioning immune systems aren’t susceptible to.
Bacterial pneumonia is a common occurrence in all people that puts them in a hospital for antibiotic treatment.
Viral pneumonia also occurs frequently.
Now we have COVID pneumonia. He was placed on the COVID wing most likely until his tests confirmed it wasn’t COVID related. Being in the ED is no safer or more dangerous than the COVID wing. It just sounds scarier. To answer a breh above, you can’t just do rapid tests and call it a day. Doctors do differential diagnoses all the time and pneumonia of all kinds produces similar symptoms. More detailed tests and imaging than just rapid testing had to be done to rule it out.





