If influenza is not circulating, an influenza-like illness may indicate COVID-19.

“but it's going to create challenges I mean one of the things we're concerned about right now is in Minnesota our priority is testing first sick individuals who are in the hospital are they really infected on the second thing is to test health care workers were sick whether they're in the hospital not because we want them to work or not and the third thing is testing workers and long-term care that's all we have the ability to test for right now because we don't have any other really agents”