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So, uh... how exactly are places like my own state health and governance system justifying their actions scientifically when they trot out "due to surge in Delt
by jimmygrapes 5y ago
So, uh... how exactly are places like my own state health and governance system justifying their actions scientifically when they trot out "due to surge in Delta variant cases"? Are they simply speculating? Because that doesn't bode well for any of this ever ending.
- _Wintermute 5y agoThey know the proportion of cases due to each variant. They just can't use the test that determines the variant for diagnostic purposes as that requires separate approval.
- josephcsible 5y agoThey do know what variant you have. You just aren't allowed to know.
- rsfern 5y agoDo they though? As I understand it the PCR tests aren’t designed to distinguish between variants. We run more intensive sequencing assays on some subset of patients to assess in a statistical way the spread and emergence of variants. This would be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to run for everyone with a positive PCR result