Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test He died August 7, 2019, months before it would be used to diagnose SARS-CoV-2 Regardless, his weighty words remain
“The PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody,” Mullis once said in a public address “If you can amplify one single molecule up to something you can really measure, which is something you can do…So that could be thought of as a misuse of it”