Some people have claimed that these new variants can’t be detected by over-the-counter COVID tests. This claim is false.
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“When the new variant comes out, it’s isolated, it’s grown in the laboratory, or samples from patients that have the specific variant are collected and then applied to the test,” said Petrosino. He further explained that if test makers see that their test performs poorly on a new variant, they’ll update the test to respond. being seen throughout the United States is JN.1, with 86.5% of cases, followed by JN.1.13, with 9.5% of cases.
As a result, rapid COVID-19 tests are designed to detect the stable nucleoprotein, rather than the fast-changing spike protein. Petrosino said that “if you did make a test the spike protein, then yes, you would have this issue where the test would become obsolete every time a new variant emerged.”
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