The Case for LESS Sensitive COVID Tests

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The Case for LESS Sensitive COVID Tests with tags physics, minutephysics, science

This video is about how cheap, fast, and LESS sensitive rapid antigen tests might be better for screening (& maybe surveillance) than PCR COVID tests due to the nature of contagiousness/infectiveness at various points on the viral load trajectory of symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID sars-COV-2 carriers.

REFERENCES

Rapid Antigen Testing:

Asymptomatic Spread:

Viral Load Curve:

SARS-CoV-2 viral dynamics in acute infections. (pre-print, not yet peer reviewed)

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