Have a Case of a Covid Variant? No One Is Going to Tell You

(By Christina Jewett and JoNel Aleccia and Rachana Pradhan for Kaiser Health News)

Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the U.S., but there’s one big problem: Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a variant.

Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.  Continue reading the article here…

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