Letter: Is it the virus or something else

When people would get sick doctors might say it was pneumonia and now they say the coronavirus.

The symptoms are the same: fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscles in your body aching, loss of taste or smell …. How do you determine which it is? With COVID-19, they swab your nose with Q-tips and they do that when an MRSA infection occurs in people who have been in hospitals or nursing homes and dialysis centers.My question is are hospitals, doctors, counties and emergency responders getting paid if they have COVID-19? Or, is that only if they die from the disease?

Arlebe Bachman