Category talk:Variants of SARS-CoV-2

Isolate
The term isolate means, a specific sample taken and the virus isolated from there in order to test or sequence it. It is totally unspecific regarding the question if it was a strain, variant or whatever, because it is in no way relative to other "isolates". In any genomic databases they collect data of different isolates. Only thereafter one could compare them and see the differences and decide if it is a strain or variant or whatever. -- Manorainjan  15:20, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Text on category page
The enormous explanation section at the top that explains why the category is named the way it is, is an odd thing to have on the category page, as it links directly to an article talk page. This seems like it should be a talk page infobox, for editors, and not on the user facing subjectpage for the readership. -- 70.31.205.108 (talk) 16:29, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I thought the same and have moved it here. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 12:36, 7 February 2021 (UTC).

Variant vs. strain
As of late December 2020,  seems to suggest that general consensus on Wikipedia (although there is not much of it on this topic) is that "variant" is preferred for very specific subtypes of SARS-CoV-2—i.e., the ones in this category.