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Ron DeSantis: “The PCR test is not a very good proxy for us to know whether…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 29:16

Because if you're isolating somebody that cannot transmit the virus, that's a harm to take somebody out of society. We do that reluctantly because we don't want them to spread it. But it doesn't seem like this The PCR test is not a very good proxy for us to know whether someone's actually infectious. Right. And that's a very good point. And some of the stuff is a little bit Esoteric. But the reality includes these folks. PCR is an extraordinarily sensitive way to test for something. (29:16–29:23)

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Asserts that PCR tests are not reliable indicators of infectiousness.

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