Low rate of SARS-CoV-2 incident infection identified by weekly screening PCR in a prospective year-long cohort study.

Whitney E HarringtonWinnie YeungIngrid A BeckFred D MastJohn HouckSheila StyrchakLeslie R MillerSong LiMicaela HaglundYonghou JiangBlair ArmisteadJackson WallnerTina NguyenDaisy KoSamantha HardyAlyssa OldroydAna GervassiJohn D AitchisonLisa M Frenkel

Published in: PloS one (2022)

These data suggest that weekly SARS2-CoV2 surveillance by rtPCR did not efficiently detect pre-symptomatic infections in unvaccinated participants.

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respiratory syndrome coronavirus
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big data
real time pcr