45 cycles? That's obscene! That's going to amplify the sample strand so much that it will always register a positive result.

Wanna bet that if Biden wins the election that a CDC edict will come down that the cycle threshold across the country will be standardized to no more than 35? If that happened, immediately the positive case rate would drop dramatically. This, of course, will come with some sort of nonsensical edict from the Biden White House to force mask wearing across the country, or some such, and the media will lap it up. They'll exclaim that Biden saved the country - "Look at the number of positive cases dropping like a rock!" They'll never report that it was due to the CT being standardized to a legit value.

45 cycles? That's obscene! That's going to amplify the sample strand so much that it will always register a positive result.

Wanna bet that if Biden wins the election that a CDC edict will come down that the cycle threshold across the country will be standardized to no more than 35? If that happened, immediately the positive case rate would drop dramatically. This, of course, will come with some sort of nonsensical edict from the Biden White House to force mask wearing across the country, or some such, and the media will lap it up. They'll exclaim that Biden saved the county - "Look at the number of positive cases dropping like a rock!" They'll never report that it was due to the CT being standardized to a legit value.