HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In the NFL, there are numbers nearly everywhere, whether it's on jerseys, the scoreboard or down markers. But, in this age of COVID-19, there's one magic number: the cycle ...

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A debate among researchers has been picked up by coronavirus skeptics — could tests for COVID-19 be a little too sensitive? That was the thesis of an article published by The New York Times with the ...

With the increase in positive COVID tests, physicians, contact tracers, and hospitals in our town are very busy. I would imagine the same can be said for your community. With this time of year being ...

Q: I’ve recently read in the New York Times about PCR testing and the cycle threshold. There was concern from health experts that many labs were setting the detection threshold to a level so sensitive ...

Minnesota lab directors are defending their COVID-19 diagnostic tests amid criticism that they are too broad and find insignificant viral material in nasal and saliva samples from some people who aren ...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been persistent misinformation circulating about the validity of positive COVID-19 test results. Much of the disinformation has centered on the “gold ...

A British ex-police officer previously fact-checked by Reuters has shared misleading claims about COVID-19 on Facebook. Mark Sexton uploaded several inaccurate statements to Facebook on July 12 (here) ...

Widely shared social media posts wrongly claim that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its testing parameters for vaccinated individuals so that fewer cases of COVID-19 infections ...