People are turning to Reddit to try to get coronavirus diagnoses amid test shortages
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This method of diagnosis is unwise for a number of reasons, Dr. Sandra Kesh told Business Insider, including the fact that COVID-19 cannot be diagnosed by symptoms alone, but in the US, people have encountered test shortages. "I have gotten a pretty violent flu my symptoms match up near-perfectly to the symptoms of Coronavirus," one Redditor wrote in a post titled "Do you think I have Coronavirus?" in the
Attempts to receive a COVID-19 diagnosis online are particularly futile; there is no foolproof way to diagnose the illness based on symptoms alone because of the overlap with common viral infections.Because we're in the early stages of coronavirus spread, there is more unknown about the infection than is known — and in the absence of data, misinformation tends to spread, Kesh said. Accordingly, Reddit should be held accountable for critical health information disseminated on the platform.
"Partnering with a reliable source of medical information to provide a FAQ page might be a good way to provide their readers with a source of information they can depend on to be accurate," Kesh said.
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