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nandomrumberyesterday at 7:26 PM0 repliesview on HN

You’re right, disease labels aren’t diagnostic.

Many disease labels just mean inflammation-of-a tissue / organ.

Worth noting that some viral inflections of the respiratory tract will have a bacterial secondary, where an either commensal bacteria has over proliferated or a pathogenic bacteria has started to get a hold, and treating the bacterial secondary can help the patient better fight the viral primary.