MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show December 30, 2021 05:07:00
Today's six, seven, eight, nine and ten. and the tests that are used. the antigen tests. don't really have a good predictive value as to whether or not you are transmitting. they have a good value early on. to say if you are infected. but saying five, six, seven days later, whether it's positive or negative. is not good. because we don't know any studies at all. an original fda approval of the test. was not for the purpose of determining whether multiple days following infection that you are able to transmit. for that reason, the cdc said, it was not necessary to have a test. because the risk ...