Dr. Faisci has just revealed his assessment about the results of the Trump Covid test
"We had just received the data and we made a decision of the data," he said.
PresidentDonald Trump's The doctor announced Monday that the president had tested negative for coronavirus.Sean Conley, Wrote in a memo that Trump had "negative tested, the consecutive days, using the Abbott BinaxNow antigen card. "The news took place 10 days after Trump's original announcement he had tested positive for Covid-19. However, there was a question of medical experts, who feared thatDespite the results of negative Covid testsTrump could always be contagious because of the type of test used. But now, after a few days,Anthony Fauci, MD, finally weighed.
In an interview Wednesday, did it, according toThe New York Times, "We are convinced that we can say with a high degree of confidence thatIt is not transferable. "Read it to know what else has said, and for a glimpse of where the virus gets up,These states have the largest epidemics of COVID.
There were questions about Trump infecties based on the test used.
An antigen test, made byAbbott laboratories In the case of Trump, can detect a SARS-COV-2 infection in less than 15 minutes. Antigen tests are most likely to capture an infection when it is at its peak. They constitute a good brush test, useful for screening for asymptomatic people and tell you that the virus is present or not. For this reason,6.5 million of them were sent nationally help get schools and the economy reopened.
The antigen tests operate by looking for proteins on the surface of the virus and are commonly used because they are much faster and cheaper than the tests of the reaction of the polymerization chain (PCR). PCR tests rather look for the real genetic material of the virus. They can actually evaluate the level of virus present to give doctors a more detailed image of the phase of a disease to the patient. And for more test tips,This is the type of Covid-19 test that you should ask.
Abbott Laboratories indicates that their tests should not be used for patients a week in their illness.
Abbott themselves caution that the binaxnow testReturns false negative results in 2.9% of cases And that in patients who are a week beyond the start of symptoms, a PCR test should be used for confirmation.
"The negative results of patients with symptoms beyond seven days should be treated as presumptive and confirmation with a molecular dosage, if necessary, for patient management, can be executed," he explains. "Negative results do not exclude SARS-COV-2 infection and should not be used on the basis of treatment processing decisions or patients, including infection control decisions." And for more information on the results of inaccurate Covid tests,That's why you can test positive for Covid, even if you do not have it.
The results of Trump's PCR tests had not been clear.
The Conley memo explained that the Abbott test was not the only one to undertake by the President and that he had also taken the more detailed PCR test. However, the memo did not have any information on the results of this test and, while it mentioned that "PCR cycle threshold measurements"Taken, he did not specify what these measures were.
"Negative antigen tests repeatedly, taken in their context with additional clinical data and laboratories, including viral load, subgenomic RNA and PCR cycle threshold measures, as well as a continuous assessment of Viral culture data, everything indicates a lack of detectable viral replication, "says in its memo. "These complete data, together with the CDC guidelines for the removal of transmission-based precautions, have informed the evaluation of our medical team that the president is not infectious to others." And if you fear that you can have the virus, know thatIf you can not feel these 2 things, you can have Covid.
But weak the lights.
Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, andRue Clifford, MD, Clinical Director of National Institutes of Health, said that the results of the President of his PCR test and abbott BinApnnow's quick tests. "We had just received the data, and we made the decision of the data," said FaCi Wednesday.
The main expert on the nation's infectious disease stated that the amount of virus in Trump's body decreased regularly. The last result shows that it is "pretty much to what you want it", said Fauci. And for other COVID updates, Sign up for our daily newsletter .