Something that needs to be stressed when talking about PCR tests and Cycle Threshold is that these are not really false positives for the most part, they are instead non clinical positives. The virus is being detected, but it can't be cultured so it is "inert" or "dead". It can't make you sick and you can't get anyone else sick.
OK. I'm not really familiar with the process. I think it was just becoming a thing when I was dating a microbiologist and that was a long time ago. I was just considering that the sampling procedure is being done in a parking lot.
The PCR can’t tell if you’re contagious, and has no way of determining your “danger” to others.
To put it bluntly, the test is like walking into a kitchen blindfolded. If you smell the food, but don’t see it, you have no idea if dinner just started or ended.
Something that needs to be stressed when talking about PCR tests and Cycle Threshold is that these are not really false positives for the most part, they are instead non clinical positives. The virus is being detected, but it can't be cultured so it is "inert" or "dead". It can't make you sick and you can't get anyone else sick.
I have to think that when you're doing that level of amplification, contamination has to be a serious concern.
OK. I'm not really familiar with the process. I think it was just becoming a thing when I was dating a microbiologist and that was a long time ago. I was just considering that the sampling procedure is being done in a parking lot.
The PCR can’t tell if you’re contagious, and has no way of determining your “danger” to others.
To put it bluntly, the test is like walking into a kitchen blindfolded. If you smell the food, but don’t see it, you have no idea if dinner just started or ended.