Question: How does the PCR test distinguish between Covid-19 and the Delta variant and the common flu?
Answer: it can’t
I (unvaccinated) just tested positive for Covid19. Tested at Baylor, Scott and White.
Per the nurse and doctor, the rapid test just signals Yes/No and can be subject to false positives.
The 24 test also came back positive so I have one of the CoViDs.
No way to determine further without a different test set that they did not order.
Oh, my probable vector?
My wife, after she got her J&J vaccine a month ago. Was really sick for a few weeks afterwards. Was probably shedding virus loads all over and I snagged a few.
They didn’t even want to argue down that path.
False.
The RT-PCR test triggers off specific genetic sequences only found in SARS-CoV-2.
And SARS-CoV-2 is as similar to Influenza virus as humans are to snails. In other words, other than both being viruses, they’re as different as they can possibly be. Not even the same phylum.