{"id":49073,"date":"2021-06-03T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49073"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:12:16","slug":"sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-on-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-on-covid-19-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mutations: Impact on COVID-19 Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated over time, resulting in genetic variation in the population of circulating viral strains over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Molecular, antigen, and serology tests are affected by viral mutations differently due to the inherent design differences of each test.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Viral-Mutations.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Viral-Mutations.jpg 625w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Viral-Mutations-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices\/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">website<\/a> provides information regarding the impact of viral mutations on COVID-19 tests, recommendations for clinical laboratory staff and health care providers, and information about certain tests for which the FDA has identified potential impacts on performance due to SARS-CoV-2 genetic mutations. The FDA will update this page as significant new information becomes available.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated over time, resulting in genetic variation in the population of circulating viral strains over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Molecular, antigen, and serology tests&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49075,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49073\/revisions\/49075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}