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Ivo Bakota's avatar

Apology’s to Brian, I just noticed spell check or my dyslexia kept referring to him as Brain. This was not intentional, I’ve now fixed the spelling mistakes (hopefully).

Maybe, Brain is appropriate, his articles certainly make me think and question my bias.

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After reading this for about half an hour:

SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutations: Impact on COVID-19 Tests

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests

I'm still none the wiser as to how the test performance is impacted by viral mutations. Maybe I missed something in this labyrinth of links and technical jargon.

Is it that Omicron was so prolific that even a reduction in test specificity (more false negatives) and failure of certain test to pick up Omicron at all, still gave rise to a massive increase in the number of cases?

Wow! That's one impressive mutation. 🤔

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