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It’s an absence of leadership and a lack of resources for overburdened labs trying to juggle diagnostic testing with the search for genetic changes."},{"_id":"DXWFXCWRNFEI7LXEDSM4EAXZXE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612973829778},"type":"text","content":"“Smart people at the CDC have known since last March we needed to do genetic sequencing,” Lobelo said, “and part of it was, with the previous administration, every state was on their own in their response and there was a lack of coordination which made everything more difficult.”"},{"_id":"ZL5OPKDJTJFGXH24XT4NAP2GNQ","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"KZDIGDPQDZDHVBAVX5FQ6GUD44"},"type":"interstitial_link","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/georgia-up-to-37-cases-confirmed-of-uk-coronavirus-variant/LW2WDJU3YVGBROTJY3CQ6HCSJQ/","content":"Georgia up to 37 cases confirmed of U.K. coronavirus variant"},{"_id":"2Y2CJORXV5ERZBCJT66XFYMZKM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612973829779},"type":"text","content":"The Biden administration has called the current state of sequencing unacceptable and says its proposed spending plan includes funding for scaling up surveillance for variants, but it is unclear how much money will be spent on these efforts, and on what programs."},{"_id":"LVAR35PLXJAJNNPSNW2QZSZ2GI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724160},"type":"text","content":"Several major obstacles lie in the way of getting a quick handle on the problem. 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Variants first detected in South Africa and Brazil have now been found in some parts of the U.S."},{"_id":"TUXKQTY3QZDOZH3NUEZHXKYZLM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612973829799},"type":"text","content":"“The U.S has no excuse here,” said Gigi Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. “We have all the ingredients to be able to do this, and it should be and it is being vastly expanded.”"},{"level":3,"_id":"KIOBBNZO4NFDHIZSIPUIZ5D3XU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613080478982},"type":"header","content":"Faster results"},{"_id":"DXHQICM3RJDB5LW7CN5KM2MYF4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613080478983},"type":"text","content":"Some public health officials in Georgia have said it can take weeks between the time a test is found to be positive and undergoes genetic sequencing, and word gets back to their departments about variants."},{"_id":"XNW3WK6FVZHE5LJODYWF26IYLQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613080478984},"type":"text","content":"That is why one goal is to get results faster."},{"_id":"GTRDFQWU3BBX3PHIBQ5S2ROMMI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613080478985},"type":"text","content":"Nydam said positive tests are randomly selected and forwarded for sequencing, which takes about a week. Because the sequencing process is complex, Nydam said she wasn’t sure it could be speeded up."},{"_id":"J6PLREWYZVCDDBOXBG6RJLKRAA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724174},"type":"text","content":"Dr. Anne Piantadosi, an assistant professor in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University, has been doing sequencing since the earliest days of the pandemic and says the multi-step process takes about five days."},{"_id":"NXJJXPVZMJD47GQCD4BZYJGDJU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724175},"type":"text","content":"First, genetic material is extracted from the sample, which is usually a nose swab. Then, sequencing machines map out the entire SARS-CoV-2 virus genetic code — all 29,903 individual building blocks. The machine can take a couple of days to complete that, and then scientists must manually review the findings."},{"_id":"OCJEG7STWBF5HHR3XAZCPTDDPQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724176},"type":"text","content":"Piantadosi said the process could be speeded up with robotic instruments to help with some tasks and by researchers working around the clock."},{"_id":"YKT6HGFJIBGUNGDKQFDFCPDMYI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724177},"type":"text","content":"A faster turnaround may be essential in the race against the variants, say public health authorities in the U.K. Some want to see no more than 36 hours between initial testing and getting results, so authorities can isolate the cases and do contact tracing."},{"_id":"6K5YYBKK5RCZ3N4RY4FS2BUBBY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612973829809},"type":"text","content":"Nydam said contact tracing can start the moment a person has a positive test, and wouldn’t need to wait for results on whether the strain was a variant. 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For example, a new study suggests that a promising monoclonal treatment, which must be given to patients early after infection, is failing against some variants of the virus, such as those that have emerged in South Africa and Brazil."},{"_id":"ZCXAZ7EJYVEIZI6VKUWFLOVWEM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612985777179},"type":"text","content":"“It is how we use genetic information to guide the best medical action,” said She, the molecular geneticist in Augusta."},{"_id":"66RA2KBPFFCFRNU6RRIZAWBZII","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1613075724182},"type":"text","content":"Castrucci, the former Georgia DPH official now with the de Beaumont Foundation in Maryland, said the U.S. hasn’t been tested in decades like it is now."},{"_id":"TKHYXA7VYZFJ5KIBEV4RXMXUM4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1612983751774},"type":"text","content":"“America is at a crossroads, and we have to decide whether we want to get serious and preventing the spread of this virus, and so far we have not shown we have the appetite to do so,” he said. “We need to make some hard decisions on what we are going to spend our money on. 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