No test for delta

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it is not clear whether or not this fda letter means the fda has not approved a test for delta or whether the available tests can identify SARS but not specific variants. identifcation of variants may be relevant to vaccine efficacy but not necessarily relevant to the efficacy of the overall immune response. this link has a thread about testing and identifying periods of contagiousness. seems the way forward from a public health perspective is targeted testing and therapeutics when needed.

just testing the new forum

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Since when did you read that PCR test is valid for testing any kind of “virus”? It isn’t. It tells you that you are human. That is about it.

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And if I may add, this is what author of that test was saying all the time. Now he’s gone too.

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Conveniently died at a young age… I dunno. Which did they choose- cancer or heart attack?

Not directly to do with delta variant, but vindicates our esteemed host, not that he needs it.

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I want a cigarette so bad. I miss smoking…

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Vitamin B3, also known as Nicotinamide, Niacinamide, or Niacin, seems to do just as good a job, or even better by some accounts.

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Agreed, WuWu, and that is on my growing list of daily supplements.

It’s just now they want to make a pharmaceutical out of a plant that was widely used by indigenous peoples for both it’s medicinal and spiritual properties.

I usually have a metaphorical head banging on a wall kind of moment, when the cures are found in the natural world that ‘they’ have been hell bent on destroying.

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Yes ,I am truly annoyed by that growing list.
Big pharma morphs into Big Nutra.