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Michael Mina

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Physician-Scientist, MD,PhD. Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious disease, CSO, CMO. Past: Harvard Faculty. BlueSky @michaelmina.bsky.social

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5 years ago

I want to start a movement to stop calling qPCR Ct results as “Viral Load” It’s *RNA* Load Can have a LOT of RNA leftover after infection w no culturable virus. Virus usually neutralized and gone but residual RNA sticks around in small lipid vesicles RNA load not = virus load