Experts say Coronavirus test is to sensitive

My apologies I did not realize this article was a year old

Experts say US's coronavirus positivity rate is high because tests are 'too sensitive' | Daily Mail Online

• Up to 90 percent of people tested for COVID-19 in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada in July carried barely any traces of the virus, a new report says
• Experts say it could be because today's tests are 'too sensitive'
• In the US PCR testing is the most widely used diagnostic test for COVID-19
• PCR tests analyze genetic matter from the virus in cycles and today's tests typically take 37 or 40 cycles
• Experts say this is too high because it deems a patient positive even if they have small traces of the virus that are old and no longer contagious
• They suggest lowering the number of cycles, which would hone in on people with a higher viral load and who are more contagious
• Today there are 5.9million cases of COVID-19 in the US and there have been more than 182,000 deaths