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South Carolina has confirmed very few delta COVID variant cases, 70 in the past month, even as the variant likely accounts for the bulk of more than 15,000 cases in that time.
The screening for the delta variant is limited and it is unlikely South Carolina will know how many positive tests get additional screening, because knowing whether a person has a variant does not change treatment or public health prevention recommendations, according to Dr. Brannon Traxler, the state’s public health director.
More than 83% of the new COVID cases in the US are estimated to be from the delta variant, a mutation that is more infectious than the original, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That estimate is based on detailed surveillance, a genetic sequencing of a small sample of positive COVID-19 tests.
South Carolina lab working to learn more about COVID-19 variants
A medical lab in South Carolina is expanding testing for COVID-19 variants in the Palmetto State and around the country. Author: Jenna Kurzyna Updated: 5:49 PM EDT April 23, 2021
GREENVILLE, S.C. A medical lab in South Carolina is working to expand testing for COVID-19 variants in the Palmetto State and around the country.
Since the pandemic started, Premier Medical Lab Director Vidhya Narayanan said testing became a main focus. Now, the lab is trying to identify, track and trace different variants of the virus. When COVID-19 first came about, it was one strain that came from Wuhan, China, right? So, we have that sequence database, and as the pandemic started spreading across the world, across the globe, the virus started mutating and a new kind of virus, still COVID-19, but a different strain came about, Narayanan said.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Biden Administration announced Friday a $1.7 billion investment to monitor new and emerging COVID-19 variants which could induce another pandemic wave. Concurrently, to combat these mutated strains, advanced molecular diagnostics laboratory, Premier Medical Laboratory Services announces their launch of one of the nation s largest variant surveillance initiatives. Now conducting genomic sequencing of 6,000 specimens per day, PMLS plans to increase that number to 12,000 by May. The large amounts of data gathered by this initiative will help protect the population from a future surge and cases with increased severity of symptoms.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Diversified Medical Healthcare (DMH) announced today that Senator Tim Scott s senior staff visited their headquarters, touring the Greenville, SC facility which houses four healthcare companies making a national impact. Premier Medical Laboratory Services (PMLS), CPT Medical, OnGen, and Vessel Medical serve as a large-scale molecular diagnostics lab, clinical test kit manufacturer, surgical kit manufacturer, medical data management software firm, laboratory equipment supplier, and PPE kit supplier.
Senator Tim Scott s staff tours Diversified Medical Healthcare Their efforts highlight the life-saving impact of American innovation, and I am proud of the work they have done.
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