COVID Diagnosis with PCR | Misinterpreting results | Cycle threshold explained
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Channel: Anthony Kuster
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Keywords: PCR, RT-PCR, false positive, reverse transcriptase, cycle threshold, infectivity, long hauler, reinfection, contact tracing, coronavirus infectivity, covid 19 test, covid 19 infectivity, infectivity of covid 19 patients, covid test procedure, covid test positivity, covid false positives and false negatives, pcr testing is not accurate, pcr testing covid, covid reinfection cases, covid reinfection thailand, rt-pcr test, coronavirus test, covid testing accuracy, PCR test explained
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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)
Published: Sat Sep 19 2020
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Cool info. Hopefully some of those recommendations will be adopted
I just looked this up on the CDC website and it says that Ct is not really an accurate way to determine how infections you are...I found this FAQ: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/faqs.html#Interpreting-Results-of-Diagnostic-Tests if you are interested in checking it out.