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t-writescode on Jan 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for intern...

Doesn't this presuppose that the only thing the test can detect is the virus itself and not things that highly, but not perfectly, correlate to it?

ceejayoz on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

Not really, no. They specifically pick genomic sequences believed to be unique to SARS-CoV-2; they're specific enough to distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and the other known coronaviruses, let alone less related viruses.

secretupstar2 on Jan 17, 2021 | [–]

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