Population-Level SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Cycle Threshold Values and Their Relationships with COVID-19 Transmission and Outcome Metrics: A Time Series Analysis Across Pandemic Years.

Viruses · 2025 · PMC11768943 · PMID 39861892

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highly significantp = 0.0008actually significant

For the SPHLJ positive SARS-CoV-2 RT–PCR tests, the period from June 2020 to May 2021 showed a highly significant Granger causality association ( p = 0.0008), indicating that Ct values effectively predicted changes in this metric.

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did not achieve significanceno p-value reported

Other metrics did not achieve significance.

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