But there is. By testing contacts before they become symptomatic (or shortly after exposure for those who don't become symptomatic)
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Replying to @MackayIM @PHI_PHI_PHI_MD and
Yes and that happens in what percentage of these cases for you to state it as a pervasive fact?
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @MackayIM and
I feel like you are trying to ask ‘what is an infectious disease?’ There actually is a lot written on the subject online and elsewhere. Yeah COVID caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a new thing and we need to learn about it specifically but we can use the rest of biology generally.
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Replying to @PHI_PHI_PHI_MD @MackayIM and
That’s not at all what’s being discussed. Covid is infectious. But we are over measuring who is infectious. A vast number of people found “positive” aren’t infectious anymore and likely haven’t been for a while. That’s the point. If you are willfully unable to understand, well..
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @MackayIM and
Sure it is. The question is in which communities are there active infections is exactly why we have testing. It’s a joke to think that the individual who had a positive PCR didn’t get it from someone who was infectious and didn’t pass it on to someone else.
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Replying to @PHI_PHI_PHI_MD @MackayIM and
You’re missing the point. Where one got it, etc is completely irrelevant. The person had it. Long ago. Doesn’t have it anymore. With a CT of 40+ you’ll still find that dead virus remnants. This person is NoT infectious. Either you get this simple fact, or you don’t.
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @PHI_PHI_PHI_MD and
If only you understood how what you said can be so very wrong. But you don't. And you're not asking, just telling, so there's little chance to step through your misunderstanding and fill some knowledge gaps.
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Replying to @MackayIM @PHI_PHI_PHI_MD and
Right. Top professors in the world have explained this in the simple way it merits explaining. But no, you’re on to some magical wisdom that you cannot explain yourself. Got it. Good luck..
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @MackayIM and
You're literally talking to an acknowledged world expert, who is in fact a professor, telling you that you are wrong
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I have slightly better professors telling me what I will believe. Such is the state of science. Thanks for the chat.
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I mean, either that or you are wrong. Might be worth considering that you've misinterpreted given that an expert in the area has just told you that you are incorrect 
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No. The issue of high cycle thresholds yielding dead virus that’s not infectious anymore is crystal clear. Please quote a source of a scientist writing in a known journal or outlet suggesting otherwise. Thanks.
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Replying to @MoreeSpinne @GidMK and
Have you seen her ACMGG position statement on the utility of testing? rtPCT for coronavirus wasn’t what it was designed for but the same epistemology arguments hold.https://www.nature.com/articles/gim201541 …
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