In other words, the mass testing in Wuhan using RT-PCR (11 MILLION PEOPLE) was largely a waste of time That's an expensive political statement!https://twitter.com/MichaelAlbertMD/status/1264233957534470144 …
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But unless I'm misunderstanding, diagnostic PCR has same limitations & is kinda crap?
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Sure but you run more than one test, and there's clinical suspicion etc. Using it for diagnostic reasons is different to mass sampling for pop screening
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What about combining PCR and IgM? 'The positive detection rate is...98.6% when combining IgM ELISA assay with PCR for each patient compared with a single qPCR test (51.9%).'https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa310/5810754 …
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