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Comment by jupp0r

I’m not a virologist, but from my understanding the false negative rate is caused when collecting swab samples and not related to the concentration during the PCR. There are also thresholds in the process (mainly the number of reaction cycles) that can be tuned to account for lower concentrations.
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