VIVA – Cycle Threshold or CT value, has become popular in the community after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Especially for those who have undergone swab test and tested positive. Actually, what is a CT value?
Some of us may also think that if someone is positive for COVID-19 with a high CT, then the risk of transmission is getting smaller. Vice versa, if the CT is low then the transmission is very large.
There is indeed a threshold, to measure the CT value of someone who is declared positive. CT is high and transmission is also small, it is justified. But that doesn’t mean you’re not alert. Even other analyzes say, high CT does not guarantee someone will be fine in the future. It also does not guarantee that the virus cannot be transmitted. Here’s a glimpse of the CT value, so we can understand each other:
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