Category: sequencing

CDC: 10 Percent Chance for Genomic Sequencing of COVID-19 PCR Nasal Swab

In a Feb. 16 Tweet, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that a large percentage of nasal swab PCR tests for COVID-19 were ultimately subjected to genomic sequencing analysis, raising red flags about the genetic privacy of individuals who took such tests. “Do you have signed consent forms for every single DNA…


Fauci Predicts Omicron Will Become Dominant Variant in US

The Omicron virus variant will become the dominant variant in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. “It is going to be dominant in the United States, given its doubling time,” Fauci told CNN. In some countries, the percent of COVID-19 cases that Omicron causes is doubling every two days, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director…