I don’t understand how they can identify variants when they admitted that they can’t even tell, covid fro the flu? (The cdc ad itted that recently). Now they are able to distinguish all kinds of variants all of a sudden?
I believe they said that the original test couldn’t tell the difference between it and the flu, But they can tell the difference if they look at the actual DNA.
They can't in any large scale way. Detecting and tracking variants, essential for public health efforts, requires complete nucleic acid sequencing of the virus. Currently, only specialized labs can do this, on a small sampling of positive COVID-19 swabs.
They test a few swabs and then make up numbers to report the percentage of the variant over all the tests. Stating that 9% of a group have this new and improved variant when in reality they may have sent .01% of swabs to a lab that specializes in the variant testing is pushing any kind of believability.