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i’m wondering
if you think we could use a cut off of
viral loads determined by pcr to say
this patient
is no longer infectious can go home can
go to a nursing facility
because right now the the physicians are
really having a hard time with that
right again a good question and what is
now
sort of uh evolving into a bit of a
standard
that if you get a cycle threshold
of 35 or more that the chances of it
being replication competent are
minuscule
so that if somebody and you know we do
we have patients and it’s very
frustrating
for the patients as well as for the
physicians
somebody comes in and they repeat
their pcr and it’s like 37
cycle threshold but you never if you
almost never can
culture virus from a 37
threshold cycle so i think if somebody
does come in with 37
38 even 36 you got to say you know
it’s just it’s just dead nucleotides
period