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can you please explain what the "threshold of 35 cycles" means, to us laymen?
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12-02-2020, 01:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2020, 01:51 PM by 3rdgensooner.)
It is extremely sensitive. However the false positives would be a sort of false positive. The person may not be currently infected or currently infectious but will likely have been recently infected. It is one of the reasons we don't recommend retesting to clear people to return to work. Some may still be shedding some viral particles and the test can pick that up even though they aren't sick or contagious any more. But a test that sensitive can return true false positives as well. In a case of high prevalence like we have now that will be an extremely low number of people. The statement that false positive likelihood is 97% or higher is flatly and patently false. Absurd actually.