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Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
You might have skipped over the red highlighted words in your reference, without awareness of what they actually mean. Luckily, he CDC explains them suscinctly.Imma toss in an AI answer to the below question heading. It is consistent with a wide selection of answer sources.Seems to me they performed a DNA test on Ol' Puddin Head. Maybe the algorithms ignored all that was not a hit to a specific known "reference genome" or maybe they didn't. Highly likely they would have to.
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You can get yourself into trouble when you cherry pick the information. You left out some bullet points from the CDC link. You left out Step 4:
Analysis Of The Sequencing. From the link:
The sequencer produces data—millions of long strings of letters—that are then assembled together or aligned with a reference sequence. Analytical programs compare the new sequence data to the reference sequence and identify variations in the sample that allow scientists to infer an ancestral relationship, much like a family tree.
New pathogens can be identified by comparing their sequence to a database of all known pathogens and finding related species.
It should not be that difficult to relate one variant of SARS_CoV2 virus to another. Under a microscope with a lot of magnification the Crown of a SARS_CoV2 Virus can be seen easily. The Corona part of the name comes from this Crown-like structure that all Corona viruses have.
There is no doubt that Biden was infected with a variant (KP 2.3) of SARS_CoV2 virus in July of 2024. It was not Influeza_A or any other pathogen.
We can communicate when you return from your vacation.
https://www.cdc.gov/advanced-molecul...equencing.html