As stated in the Oxford Academic study titled “Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates,” only 3 percent of positive PCR test results cultured at 35 or more cycle thresholds was actually positive.
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