MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show December 30, 2021 09:10:00
Because pcr doesn't measure replication competent virus. it measures viral particles, nucleic acid. so, in other words, i could be infected, have cleared the replication-competent virus from me, butre i can continue to be positive with a pcr for several days after recovering and not being transmissible at all. so although a pcr is good to tell you, am i infected, yes, i am infected. but the very fact that it's positive for, as the cdc director said, for several days and even weeks later, it doesn't give you any indication of whether or not you're transmissible. and i think that's the understan...