Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020
Dispatch
Pooling Upper Respiratory Specimens for Rapid Mass Screening of COVID-19 by Real-Time RT-PCR
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Figure 1. Distribution of RdRp gene (Ct) values for specimens from 4,364 confirmed patients in South Korea at their initial diagnosis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the specimens selected by stratified sampling. This figure shows the first RdRp gene Ct values of patients receiving a COVID-19 diagnosis (bars). We selected positive samples with the stratified sampling method based on that distribution (line). Cumulative numbers of selected specimens per stratum are shown. Ct, cycle threshold.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
2These authors contributed equally to this article.