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Ep98: Mara Aspinall on Diagnostics and COVID-19

The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

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Do You Still Believe in Quantitative PCR Testing?

Just because somebody has a lot of virol load, they are much more likely to be highly contagious. So what i'd like to see is a programme for which most tests can come back just as positive and negative. And we're finding in dealta people have ridiculously high viro loads, even even if they are symptomatic. If we have the information, why are we bearying it? It makes no sense. We don't wantPeople saying, oh, i only havea bit of covid so i can go out. But  it's not because you're a bad person or not din shower that morning. It just is the biology.

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