REAGENT or RESOURCE	SOURCE	IDENTIFIER
Biological samples
292,268 Nasopharyngeal swabs	ELECTRA-TAU Laboratory	N/A
Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins
Ethanol	Biolabls. Israel	Cat number: 525052100
molecular grade water	Biolabls. Israel	Cat number: 232121232300
TaqPath™ 1-step Multiplex Master Mix No ROX	Applid Bioscience,	Cat number: A28523
MS2 Control phage	Applied Biosciences	Cat number: 100092698
Critical commercial assays
MagMAX Viral/Pathogen Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit	Applied Bioscience	Cat number: A42352
lysis buffer	Beckman Coulter,	Cat number: C42153
magnetic beads	RNAdvance Viral Bind-VBE	Cat number: C58702
Software and algorithms
GraphPad Prism 9 for macOS, version 9.0.1(128)	https://www.graphpad.com/scientific-software/prism/	SCR_002798
Other
Israeli Ministry of Health daily COVID-19 cases stratified by age group	https://data.gov.il/dataset/covid-19	N/A
Israeli Ministry of Health daily vaccination coverage stratified by age group	https://data.gov.il/dataset/covid-19	N/A
QuantStudio 5 Real Time PCR System	Applied Bioscience	Cat number: AB-A28574
Biomek i7	Beckman Coulter	N/A
KingFisher 96 Flex	Thermo Fisher	N/A