U.S. Contributes "very Little" To Tracking COVID-19 Variants: AP
Umer Jamshaid Published December 02, 2021 | 04:43 PM
The United States has contributed "very little" to the global effort of finding and tracking new versions of COVID-19 like Omicron, the Associate Press has reported
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Dec, 2021 ) --:The United States has contributed "very little" to the global effort of finding and tracking new versions of COVID-19 like Omicron, the Associate Press has reported.
"With uncoordinated and scattershot testing, the U.S. was sequencing fewer than 1 percent of positive specimens earlier this year. Now, it is running those tests on 5 percent to 10 percent of samples," said the report published Tuesday.
At present, more than 20 countries are sequencing a larger proportion of positive specimens than the United States, the report noted.
"I think we still have a long way to go," the report quoted William Moss, professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health, as saying.
The report noted that many experts believe Omicron has probably already made its way into the United States, and that the variant "will be picked up by the surveillance system soon."
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