Might not be that they are unable to distinguish, but could be something to do with doctor-patient privacy and telling the government to keep its nose out of others personal business.

Also, the majority (>90%) of people who died of Covid at PMH in November were unvaccinated. Similarly, 90% of people admitted to PMH with Covid in November were also unvaccinated.

So what you're saying is that all the Covid related deaths in the USA were in the vaccinated ? I think the total number of deaths in the USA is around 850,000, so I would make sure you're not pulling your info out of someone else's rear end.

RA test can't identify specific strain, but PCR can as long as the lab doing the analysis has the appropriate technology (gene sequencing equipment), which the majority in the US & EU do have, but not sure about Bahamas

Something's wrong with the syntax of your last sentence, but I think what you're trying to ask is why are certain treatments not allowed for Covid. The answer is quite simple.

All medications have to be approved by each country's regulatory authority, for the condition it was treating during it's clinical trials.

There are certain exceptions, such as:

Doctor's prescribing medications for what they call "off-label use" which is why some doctor's have been prescribing Ivermectin and HCQ for Covid. There is a risk in doing this as if something happens to the patient, when prescribed for a non-approved condition the doctor could be considered liable.

There is also something called "Compassionate Use", which is authorized by the said Regulatory Authorities when a drug has either not yet completed clinical trials, or has failed it's clinical trials. This permission would typically be given to terminally ill patients. or when a drug did not achieve it's clinical endpoint in the majority of patients, but a few very sick patients did benefit from it.

Oh boy, don't you seem to have all the answers. Maybe you should send out your resume of first hand knowledge to who, cdc & paho. They obviously don't have the right people advising them.

Oh, and one small correction. Flu is not a corona virus, but I'm sure you knew that with your vast knowledge, and it was just an oversight on your part.

I have to admit, your last sentence has passed through my mind multiple times too.

The PCR test can identify the specific viral strain as long as the lab has the required technology to perform the sequencing.

And, your statement about "mild symptoms and virtually no hospitalizations" inferred you were talking specifically about Omicron and not all the strains. At least to me it did.

They're not testing just for Omicron !! All the other variants are still active. Omicron doesn't just come along and the other mutations magically disappear into thin air.!!

C'mon people, start using logic and some of those critical thinking skills you were taught skills, instead of defaulting to your emotional biases.

People seem to forget that Omicron hasn't replaced the other variants, it's just the newest one. Delta is still very much out there, which is why testing is still important.

Omicron symptoms might be milder, but the same doesn't apply to Delta.