I can only read so much about the virus and vaccines before I go crazy, so I may have missed this, but I had read that on the positive tests they can’t tell what variant it is. Has that changed?
Thanks
From the American Lung Association:
Regular COVID-19 tests do not detect which variant is involved in a patient’s case—that information does not change the approach to care or therapy. The variant identification requires genomic sequencing, a process separate from regular virus tests and one that not all labs are able to do or do not do on a routine basis for patient care but are done more for public health monitoring.
https://www.lung.org/blog/covid-19-delta-variant
That’s what I’ve read.
In fact, there’s a thread about a reply someone received FROM CDC about how the only way to determine variant is through expensive genome testing...which, of corse, is not being done.
I don’t think the current test can even tell if it’s not common flu 🙃
The CDC chaos is beyond insane. No credibility, at all.
*corse....should be course, of course :-)
That’s what I get for replying ON PHONE, in the drive thru, without glasses 🤓🙃
As far as everything I have read they still can’t tell what variant it is or if it is just the flu.