To this layman, it seems that authorities are doing far better at telling us how to avoid the spread of the coronavirus than they are at telling us how to care for ourselves if we think or know we’re infected.

The official coronavirus.gov site has no answers to most self-care questions. Even the site’s page called “Caring for Yourself at Home,” which provides 10 top suggestions to “manage your health,” includes six directives that are not actually aimed at caring for the patient but at stopping him or her from spreading the virus to others.