And many other groups have also sequenced it. You have to know the sequence to design the correct primers for the PCR amplification.
That being said, I do think the PCR results are flawed because many ran/run over 30 amplification cycles. If amplification occurs after 30 cycles that indicates a very small amount of virus present; suggesting that the person is most likely asymptomatic and not contagious. So reporting these as positive artificially drove/drives up the infection rates.. leading to increased panic over a virus that has a survival rate of more than 99% for people under the 70 and 95% for people over 70.
Plus they haven't even isolated the virus in the scientific community... because there isn't one. There's that.
A German group isolated and sequenced it back in June. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_045512.2
And many other groups have also sequenced it. You have to know the sequence to design the correct primers for the PCR amplification.
That being said, I do think the PCR results are flawed because many ran/run over 30 amplification cycles. If amplification occurs after 30 cycles that indicates a very small amount of virus present; suggesting that the person is most likely asymptomatic and not contagious. So reporting these as positive artificially drove/drives up the infection rates.. leading to increased panic over a virus that has a survival rate of more than 99% for people under the 70 and 95% for people over 70.