Virology: Tests can be wrong with the definition of activity COVID-19

Some tests for coronavirus have low sensitivity, warned Director of Institute of public health HSE Larisa Popovich.

According to her, the RBC test COVID-19 does not always accurately can determine if the virus or already overwhelmed by the human immune system.

it is Noted that currently in Russia used about 16 tests COVID-19 with different levels of sensitivity. Most of them have rates of 95-96%.

Just today in Russia revealed 752 797 thousand cases of coronavirus. Earlier, the doctor-the virologist Timur Pesterev said that in Russia mass vaccination against coronavirus may begin “in the near future — this year”.

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