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In reply to the discussion: CDC study shows three-fourths of people infected in Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak were vaccinated [View all]BumRushDaShow
(130,979 posts)because from day one, you have completely dismissed the pandemic and it's severity. I don't know if you even read the PDF that was linked to. Here it is again - https://publichealthmdc.com/documents/2021-07-29_data_snapshot.pdf
Here is a link to their site where they are tracking the sequencing by variant - https://dataportal.slh.wisc.edu/sc2dashboard
That chart was not comparing apples and oranges. It was using whatever U-WI found with their tests to establish what was being found between "unvaccinated" and "vaccinated" for load. The fact that it was a scatter plot is showing you the "relative" correlation and the relative range - high to low - based on whatever test system was used.
I.e., you either have the virus or you don't, and if you do have it, "here are the relative levels of it that were found", and in the case of both the MA and WI data sets, as long as they are using the same or similar testing protocols, you can compare them. And the papers that I had gone through were generally indicating that it was generally consistent, even across the different tests, regarding how much amplification seemed to be needed to hit someone with a high load (less cycles needed), and how much to basically find nothing at all or end up picking up "noise" substances (generally greater than 33 - 35).
When you get a blood test - say from Lab Corps or Quest, they provide the ranges for their tests (and sometimes will include a brief description of their protocols) and what is considered "high" or "low". Both labs do testing for standard suites of blood, urine, and/or fecal panels and all the entities that they are testing for, and will add any additional via a physician's Rx for specific types of analysis. Because of the variability that patients will naturally have, they always do a range and will designate whether your result falls within it, and in fact, there are some tests that actually will say that your "x" value should be "greater than" "y" or "less than" "z", and they will continually update those ranges over time as research dictates.
And as a note, both Quest and Lab Corps do much of the COVID testing as well.