How did they identify "Delta"? From everything I've read, there is no test for Delta. Well, there is but is cost-prohibitive and thus virtually never used.
Stop asking questions!!
tHe sCiEnCe! Is all you need to know.
Delta gets identified by sequencing after isolation. Isolation is done routinely by machines for decades. Some say that the virus was never isolated because the process is fraudulent ("tainted", "not pure"). Some say that the machines only malfunction with SARS-2, but most admit that then every other virus must be fraud too - they then promote the terrain theory. So if you are in the viruses-are-real camp, Delta gets identified by its RNA sequence.
There is another test for delta, quick and dirty until the more expensive tests are done: One of the antibody tests uses two antibody types that bind to Alpha. If one type binds, but the other fails, it's most likely Delta.
Thanks for the info. It sounds like you have some knowledge in this area.
What do you think about the narrative that the sequence that identifies COVID is a fraud because the sequence was never isolated but pieced together from viruses which ought to be similar? I think the Saulk Inst claimed they had isolated the entire sequence but I've not read the technicals to see if they also stitched.
Your commend about "most others"....is that stitching/sampling common practice when identifying viruses? Even other than COVID?
Thx
This is the first official sequence (besides the ones sent by Wuhan to the CDC, where they disappeared, maybe because they could reveal the origin of the virus):
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000097
The "supplementary data" linked there (20-00097_OKADA_SupplementS1.pdf) shows how it was done, the normal standard procedure, done more or less automatically by commercial available machines.
The resulting RNA/DNA sequences from all over the world are stored in open access databases, so that scientists can use the sequences to trace variants and for in-silico research. GISAID is one of the more prominent ones (with 3.4 million sequences in the SARS-2 database):
(post is archived)