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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Greater Accuracy to PCR Testing?
There's also a downfall though of PCR and test that look for RNA. They can sometimes detect somebody, uh, who is no longer infectious. When people go in these exceedingly high sensitivityPCR tests, people will stay positive for weeks or months after their infection has subsided. It's problems that the CDC and the FDA and doctors don't want to deal with.
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