. @GovRonDeSantis asked @MLevitt_NP2013 to talk about PCR testing.

Levitt: " It’s important to point out that PCR testing has never been used widely on this scale, and you can do a thought experiment about if, during a flu season 2 years ago, you had done PCR testing,...

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"you probably would have found that very large numbers of the population were flu-positive because, really, flu does get around a lot. We’re basically not experienced in what it means to track a disease by PCR;...

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"we’re also not experienced in what it means to track a disease by contact tracing. I think the problem with contact tracing for COVID and for all respiratory infections is that essentially you don’t get it by touching somebody;...

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"you get it by being near somebody, maybe being in the same room as somebody, and as a result, there are many, many different paths of contact tracing. Diseases like Ebola, you really have to get very close to somebody...

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"Contact tracing is expecting people to be wired together, whereas COVID is a bit like WiFi… I think there were a number of novel things here that seemed to make perfect sense and give people a feeling of empowerment, like contact trace, test everybody,...

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"There are certain people who really believe that testing is the solution to everything, and I’m not one of them.”

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