I appreciate your input and while not a medical professional, have been fighting the battle on another site.
It is very frustrating to read the wild comments from people who either read questionable literature, or read reliable information and then totally misrepresent what it says.
People in general seem to have a hard time with statistics, percentages, and the concept of distributions.
This seems to be the info I was looking for
We don’t always know [the variant] when we do the regular tests,” Winter said. “We do that in epidemiological studies ... The routine testing for COVID-19 will just tell you if you have the coronavirus. It doesn’t tell you what strain you might have.”
Health officials are able to identify COVID-19 strains through genetic sequencing, a process different from a standard COVID-19 test.
For example, earlier this month, Parkland’s chief medical officer, Dr. Joe Chang, estimated that 30-40% of new COVID-19 cases in North Texas were of the delta variant. But that was an estimate because, as Chang explained, it would be impractical for Parkland to test every COVID-19 test for genetic sequencing to identify the specific variant.
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