Tag: Delta

A Variant Of A Variant Of A Virus. Maybe.

At what point will they decide to call it SARS-CoV-3?

COVID Delta Subvariant Confirmed in US, Israel
During Wednesday’s White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky confirmed that the subvariant has been found in the U.S., though not in clusters.

But the really interesting point is this.

“In the United States, delta remains the dominant variant with more than 99.7% of sequence cases in the country being caused by delta,” Walensky said. “There are new variants that continue to emerge as cases continue to spread, and in particular, the AY4.2 variant has drawn some attention in recent days.

If they have viral isolates and are sequencing them, why hasn’t Walensky told her own people, who still say they don’t have an isolate?

If they’ve sequenced the virus(es), why are they still using a PCR test based not on an isolate, but rather on a dubious Chinese partial sequence and a by-gosh-best-guess?

These inconsistent “facts” coming out of the CDC aren’t helping much with the conspiracy theories.

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Did you get the “Delta variant” of ChinCOVID?

How do you know? Did your doctor tell you?

How did he know? Did the PCR test lab tell him?

They’d better not have.

You aren’t legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the US, even if it’s Delta
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.
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So far, Wroblewski said, more than 50 public labs in the US are capable of sequencing coronavirus samples to detect variants. But she’s not aware of any labs that have completed the validation process to get federal approval.

In my niece’s case, they told her it was Delta because she had head and spinal pain, no fever. That’s real specific, huh? A retired RN said that sounded more like meningitis.

We’re told that Delta is now the most prevalent strain in the US. How do they know?

Is that based on CDC lab screening? Where are the tested samples coming from? What’s geographic distribution? How many samples?

Is it based on screening data from those 50-something labs given to the CDC , when they can’t give it to… you? Again: distribution and quantity of samples? The CDC doesn’t share that info.

On the bright side, we know they have test results from all states; but we know zilch about the number of tests per state, or the geographic distribution in the state. Do all of Georgia’s tests come from Atlanta, home of the CDC? What would that says about variants down in rural southeast Georgia?

Wouldn’t it be nice to know what that Delta dominance claim is based on?

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