Omicron & Testing: Your Top 20 Questions Answered (with Michael Mina)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Symptoms Are Starting Really Early, Right?
In general, a lot f p car will just stay positive. It's going to stay positive for another week, two weeks, three weeks or four weeks. When you don't have enough virus to turn an antigen test positive, you'll probably no longer be infectious. And on the contrary, if you have enough antigin, which is virus protein, ah, to turn rapid test positive, that means you have a lot of protein. There probly around a million viral particles per mill it takes to start turning these positive tests positives. You still have quite a bit adand i would say that it t tends to be around a 95% concordance between a rapid antigen test and
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