Pope of Muskanity
@RationalEtienne · Nov 13, 2020
True, yet the flu has a very different disease pattern than COVID-19.
There's undoubtedly a percentage of covid cases that are actually just people with the flu. That percentage is more elevated in areas with low REAL covid cases, high real flu rate and elevated testing.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Just spoke directly to a testing lab. Their main PCR search is for the N1 gene, unique to cov2. N3 is also sought, but is generic to other sars viruses. High PCR cycle count *does* give false positives, but they believe accuracy is good below 30 cycles & 40 cycles is their max.
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