Posted on 08/06/2020 8:05:39 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Bingo!
so.....how reliable are ANY of these tests?
If the test that the Secret Service issues to a man who is about to meet the President can deliver a false positive, how good can one being given by the health department in some rural county in Florida be?
“When Mr. DeWine was first tested on Thursday morning as part of a White House screening, he received an antigen test, a new frontier of testing that allows for results in minutes, not days, but has been shown to be less accurate.”
That statement comes from the fact that while the antigen test may show a positive result, the PCR test may not.
But the PCR test is also not accurate. It finds bits and after some sampling it uses algorithms to estimate a viral load. BUT sometimes the bits that it found and used were not active viral components, but remnants, left from a defeated infection and sometimes those remnants can be found 12 weeks after the infection has been defeated. THAT fact has contributed to the current “new case” counts.
I would say a positive PCR test with zero symptoms requires repeat PCR tests each week, as long as there is still no symptoms, for up to 13 weeks or until the PCR test is negative, whichever is sooner. If symptoms never develop, the initial positive test was registering remnants of defeated infection, not a “new” positive case.
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