Can blood tests distinguish between bacterial or viral infections?

  This question? It is similar to the current question “Can Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis diagnose pregnancy?” that appears online. is similar.  A friend asked me: Do you think TCM can diagnose pregnancy? I answer: This is a good question, just as it is not reliable to distinguish bacterial and viral infections based on blood work alone or mainly (note “alone or mainly”), so is pulse diagnosis of pregnancy, which is also probabilistic and varies greatly among individuals. But even so, we can’t dismiss blood work, pulse, or even Chinese medicine as unscientific. The empirical theory of fine data as evidence is science, and fuzzy logic, fuzzy science is also science, and the latter is given more importance in the era of big data, and more importance is given to individualized diagnosis and treatment. The era of big data, which combines human-machine integrated analysis, focuses on the relevance of things, and does not seek simple causality (the so-called “gold standard, confirming the diagnosis”), has arrived.