• 2020 JUL 16 This Week in Virology • TWiV 641: COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci •
TWiV 641: COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci joins TwiV to discuss SARS-CoV-2
transmission, testing, immunity, pathogenesis, vaccines, and preparedness.
Dr. Anthony Fauci Quote:
“What is now sort of evolving into a bit of a standard, that
if you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more [cycles] that the chances of it
being replication-competent are minuscule”
“Somebody comes in and they repeat their PCR and it’s like
37 cycle threshold but you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold
cycle.”
“So, I think if somebody does come in with 37, 38, even 36,
you got to say, you know it’s just dead nucleotides,
period.”
