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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4753334" data-attributes="member: 63706">Orly? &quot;WHO guidance <a href="https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/diagnostic-testing-for-sars-cov-2" target="_blank">Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2</a> states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.&quot;I know it doesn&#039;t specify a particular cycle threshold, there is plenty of other literature that supports 30 CT. The added scrunity required to determine an active infection will necessarily lead to fewer reported cases, which means cases have been over-reported, and by as much as 90% as reported by the New York Times months and months ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4753334, member: 63706"] Orly? "WHO guidance [URL='https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/diagnostic-testing-for-sars-cov-2']Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2[/URL] states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed ([I]1[/I]). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. [B]Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.[/B]" I know it doesn't specify a particular cycle threshold, there is plenty of other literature that supports 30 CT. The added scrunity required to determine an active infection will necessarily lead to fewer reported cases, which means cases have been over-reported, and by as much as 90% as reported by the New York Times months and months ago. [/QUOTE]

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