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You aren't legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the US, even if it's Delta
Business Insider via MSN ^ | 8/23/21 | Aria Bendix

Posted on 08/24/2021 4:32:20 PM PDT by Libloather

Sam Reider, a musician from San Francisco, got a call from the California Department of Public Health in June. Though fully vaccinated, Reider had recently tested positive for COVID-19 after teaching music at a summer camp. The health department asked him to take a second test at a local Kaiser Permanente.

Reider assumed it was because authorities wanted to find out whether he had a Delta infection. He, too, was curious - but when he got the test results back, he was surprised to learn that doctors couldn't give him any information about his variant.

"When I got the follow-up from Kaiser, they said it's positive, but they didn't have any of the sequencing information," Reider told Insider. That "felt odd to me," he said.

Several legal barriers prevented Reider and his doctors - as well as nearly all Americans who have tested positive for the coronavirus - from knowing which variant was to blame.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), which oversees the regulatory process for US labs, requires genome-sequencing tests to be federally approved before their results can be disclosed to doctors or patients. These are the tests that pick up on variants, but right now, there's little incentive for the labs to do the work to validate those tests.

"I don't think there's a lot of motivation, quite honestly, to get that done," Kelly Wroblewki, director of infectious diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told Insider.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; delta; legal; secrecy; variant
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Just covid - until it isn't. They'll let you know. In the meantime, get another shot. Science.
1 posted on 08/24/2021 4:32:20 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Everything about this “pandemic” is weird.


2 posted on 08/24/2021 4:33:32 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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To: Libloather

3 posted on 08/24/2021 4:33:59 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Libloather

Without the genome test, any flu like positive response can be counted as Covid and thus inflate the numbers and push the narrative.


4 posted on 08/24/2021 4:35:40 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Libloather

Fauxci blinded me with science.


5 posted on 08/24/2021 4:35:41 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Libloather

because its all fake


6 posted on 08/24/2021 4:36:22 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: Libloather

From my understanding they did not isolate the virus to develop the test.

I don’t know if they yet have an isolation of the virus genome from any variant.


7 posted on 08/24/2021 4:37:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

This would be a huge red flag if it was me.


8 posted on 08/24/2021 4:38:24 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Libloather

I understand that testing for the Delta variation is very expensive and that no one really knows how much or how little of it exists.


9 posted on 08/24/2021 4:40:05 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: taxcontrol

And the whole variant fear mongering would implode if this was allowed and people found out it was phony.


10 posted on 08/24/2021 4:46:25 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: pnut22

From whence comes this information?


11 posted on 08/24/2021 4:48:46 PM PDT by Norski (Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?)
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To: Libloather

They don’t have a test to identify COvid or Covid variants. It’s all a hoax.


12 posted on 08/24/2021 4:49:10 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Libloather

Truckies were/still are threating to blockade the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia, so Queensland (which closed the border that the police and Army are patrolling) needed an anti-truckie story to hopefully destroy any sympathy for such a blockade.

they got it with this rubbish, which was major FAKENEWS yesterday. it is only when this story got updated overnight Australia time that it turns out they had second test and were NEGATIVE.

do their families still have to isolate for 14 days? who knows? who cares? it’s just theater:

24 Aug: 9News Australia: Two truck drivers identified as ‘low risk’ COVID-19 cases in Queensland
By Emily Bennett & Richard Wood
The drivers, from Somerset and the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, tested positive in NSW yesterday before returning a negative test.

Under strict essential worker rules, when the truckies weren’t driving they stayed home with their families, who will now have to isolate for 14 days...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-queensland-update-two-new-covid-cases-low-risk/79f86e15-9773-45fc-9342-bb50aa67c182


13 posted on 08/24/2021 4:54:13 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Libloather

Maybe there was never a covid-19; just the yearly flu until they started vaxxing people with a covid-19 variant.

It does make one wonder.


14 posted on 08/24/2021 4:58:50 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
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To: Norski

Here’s one example, but if you search it’s easy enough to find.

https://www.healthcheckup.com/covid/is-there-a-test-to-diagnose-delta-variant
Conclusion The presence of the delta variant is only verified through genomic sequencing tests. This test is expensive and is generally done by the government to evaluate the presence of a variant in a particular area. It is necessary to prevent the transmission, and a vaccine is currently the best option for it.


15 posted on 08/24/2021 5:03:22 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: Libloather

It all makes sense once you accept the fact that they consider human being who aren’t them to be nothing more than livestock.

Livestock eventually get slaughtered.


16 posted on 08/24/2021 5:05:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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I'm not sure if not being allowed to know which variant is because of law, or tests still cannot tell difference between flu and CV19.

It's only almost a month since this thread came out.

CDC to Replace Its PCR Test With One That Can Differentiate Between CCP Virus and Flu (7.27.21)

Here's some related threads.

Corrections, insights welcome.

17 posted on 08/24/2021 5:24:29 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Libloather

Doesn’t sequencing the genomics of a cirus take a lot of time and money? I doubt anyone is getting tested for which variant. As with nearly all cases when i live it is “presumptive.”


18 posted on 08/24/2021 5:35:36 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Libloather

This story is strange.

They report the case of an individual who went to Kaiser to get a COVID test, and then leap to a discussion of gene sequencing.

The writer implies, but does not state that this patient’s sample was isolated and sequenced and then makes the leap to claim that he’s being denied information about his own health. All of which would make sense if he just had the antigen test, which is pretty much the case universally.

Strange reporting.


19 posted on 08/24/2021 5:39:13 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I agree, I have read in multiple articles that the Virus was NEVER Isolated or Cultured, and the supposed “genome” sequence came from the CHiComs.

Personally I don’t believe a single word coming from any Government Employee or Official


20 posted on 08/24/2021 5:41:02 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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