{"id":18058,"date":"2021-04-23T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18058"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:43:30","slug":"could-a-souped-up-version-of-existing-covid-19-tests-be-our-shortcut-to-tracking-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18058","title":{"rendered":"Could a souped-up version of existing Covid-19 tests be our shortcut to tracking variants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Marion Renault for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>Genomic sequencing is one of the best defenses against potentially deadlier or more transmissible variants of the coronavirus. It\u2019s also expensive, slow, and currently almost nonexistent in the United States.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/04\/23\/souped-up-existing-covid-tests-shortcut-tracking-variants\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Marion Renault for STAT) Genomic sequencing is one of the best defenses against potentially deadlier or more transmissible variants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18059,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions\/18059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}