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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 4604622" data-attributes="member: 45230">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html[/URL]Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus. In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 4604622, member: 45230"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html[/URL] Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html']coronavirus[/URL] testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus. In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found. On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing. [/QUOTE]

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