Why COVID-19 Tests Don't Tell You Which Variant You May Have
Verywell Health, December 16, 2021
Dr. Pei-Yong Shi, chair in innovations in molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told Verywell that sequencing data is meaningless if it cannot be paired with information on the variant’s severity and its impact on the population. “(Variants) need to be very carefully studied, because otherwise it’s just a mutation, it’s just a code,” Shi said. “You can speculate a little bit based on the knowledge of the closer-related (mutations), but you really have to do experiments to find out what is the impact.”