TABLE 1.

Probe specificity

Probe	SARS-CoV-2 genomes (%) (n = 11629)	Non-SARS-CoV-2 genomes (%) (n = 585)
Probe 1 Bitscore (Max 40)
40	98.72	0.00
32–38	1.24	0.00
22–30	0.03	0.00
20	0.00	56.41
18	0.00	34.53
<18	0.01	9.06
Probe 2 Bitscore (Max 48)
48	99.66	0.00
34–46	0.34	0.00
32	0.00	8.89
24–30	0.00	0.34
22	0.00	5.81
20	0.00	53.50
18	0.00	31.45
<18	0.00	0.00