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Spread through her community. the problem? since she had not traveled to the hot zone and did not know anyone infected, even after being placed on a ventilator at a local hospital, she was not tested for four days after showing symptoms. do residents need to be wearing masks right now? >> we do not believe so. >> reporter: but experts say valuable time has been lost. >> every single delay in testing means potentially the virus could go to hundreds or thousands more people. >> reporter: at this p...

Without appropriate ppe. >> whats ppe? >> thats personal protective equipment. >> reporter: tonight, at least 33 people, most flown into the states, have tested positive in california. another 8,400 are being monitored after trips overseas. and governor gavin newsom says the state is running out of kits to test for the virus. >> we have just a few hundred testing kits in the state of california and thats surveillance testing as well as diagnostic testing. thats simply inadequate. >> reporter: th...

The community. if we were to see a lot of that, david, it would be criteria for a pandemic. in terms of the time, that is problematic and i think doctors were just trying to follow the previous recommended guidelines on who should be tested. >> the key difference about this she didnt know anyone that had she didnt know anyone who had theyre so alarmed about community spreading of this. in the meantime, the testing of coronavirus, we heard governor newsom say they have 200 test kits, wondering if...

Cognitive ability. >> reporter: and this is what the montreal cognitive assessment looks like. jackson said the president got a 30 out of 30, a perfect score. and fred, obviously it was a simple statement released on friday about the president. we anticipate more results coming out, blood work that was done, diagnostic testing that was done. that will be coming out sometime this week. there were also some recommendations that were made by dr. jackson, who you just saw there in the piece. he told...

Includes great in your. you cannot absolutely rule it out at this point. it looks to me that the military were appropriately investigating whether he had this disorder. you cant make this diagnosis in one meeting. you have to do a psycho social history, review records, interview people, do diagnostic testing. normally the first thing the commission does is whats called an r/00 trauma and stress related disorders. there were trying to rule it out or rule it in. the code is r/0 to rule out. if you...

Its not like they are not trying, but we had a conversation about, could post static stress disorder be involved in this. its actually not ptsd anymore. the replacement bad replaced it changed it to trauma and stress related disorder. one of the diagnostic criteria includes great in your. you cannot absolutely rule it out at this point. it looks to me that the military were appropriately investigating whether he had this disorder. you cant make this diagnosis in one meeting. you have to do a psy...

History, review records, interview people, do diagnostic testing. normally the first thing the commission does is whats called an r/00 trauma and stress related disorders. there were trying to rule it out or rule it in. the code is r/0 to rule out. if you dont confirm it, it has to exist for a month or so in and caused significant impairment. they were investigating misappropriate lee as far as his mental condition, and i agree with the previous speaker. you have to demonstrate for more than a m...