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New strains not showing up in PCR-tests

Later variants have mutated enough to not show up on single gene PCR-tests. For testing to function satisfactory PCR-tests now need two gene detection.

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20211115/Standard-PCR-tests-do-not-pick-up-new-Covid-strains-warns-expert.aspx

Peter Lindberg

By Peter Lindberg

Peter Lindberg is a commercial photographer & videographer, once educated to become an electronics engineer. Always been a science buff and interested in medicine and technology. Main hobbies are cars/racing and music. Lives in the western Sweden countryside farmland locally called "Schlätta".

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