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Ron DeSantis: “CDC has said that you can test positive for up to 12 weeks.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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8/31/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Holds Education Roundtable in Tallahassee

Published | Video Starts at 27:53

Then we really ramped it up. Now we have this massive apparatus. But if you look at the PCR testing, CDC has said that you can test positive for up to 12 weeks. So it's identifying just the part of some RNA or whatever dead virus. And then there was a report over the weekend saying that I think they had looked at like Massachusetts, New York, Nevada, the positive tests. (27:53–27:59)

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Asserts that the CDC states PCR tests can show positive results for up to 12 weeks.

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