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Originally posted by danhoff:
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I think no one really knows WHEN a person is infectious. The science on the PCR tests are that 90% of positives are NOT infectious. I do not know if that means 90% were caught pre-infectious-ness. I just do not know.
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My understanding is that incubation is up to 14 days, but mostly between 3 and 5, which is when they become symptomatic and most infectious; which coincides with when antigen testing can detect virus. PCR can detect it earlier than this. I agree that both PCR and Antigen tests have their places.
