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How Long-COVID Risk Varies By Variant
"The Omicron variant is less likely to give you long COVID than a previous strain of the virus, British researchers say.
What was described as the first peer-reviewed report to investigate Omicron and patients' risk of persistent symptoms found 4.4% of Omicron cases resulted in long COVID. That's well below the nearly 11% associated with the Delta variant, which was the dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 earlier in the pandemic, researchers said.
But because the Omicron variant is far more contagious than Delta, more people get infected with Omicron and, therefore, more experience long COVID, they added.
"We still need to keep providing support for people with long COVID while we try to understand why it occurs and how we can treat it," said lead researcher Claire Steves, a senior clinical lecturer at Kings College London.
Long COVID can include a variety of symptoms and last for weeks, months or, potentially, years, affecting a person's quality of life, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sometimes the symptoms can go away or come back.
They can include fatigue, fever, malaise, trouble breathing, cough, chest pain, heart palpitations and dizziness. People can also have foggy thinking, depression, anxiety, headaches and sleep problems, as well as loss of smell and taste. Diarrhea, stomach pain, muscle ache, rash and changes in the menstrual cycle are also possible."
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"The Omicron variant is less likely to give you long COVID than a previous strain of the virus, British researchers say.
What was described as the first peer-reviewed report to investigate Omicron and patients' risk of persistent symptoms found 4.4% of Omicron cases resulted in long COVID. That's well below the nearly 11% associated with the Delta variant, which was the dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 earlier in the pandemic, researchers said.
But because the Omicron variant is far more contagious than Delta, more people get infected with Omicron and, therefore, more experience long COVID, they added.
"We still need to keep providing support for people with long COVID while we try to understand why it occurs and how we can treat it," said lead researcher Claire Steves, a senior clinical lecturer at Kings College London.
Long COVID can include a variety of symptoms and last for weeks, months or, potentially, years, affecting a person's quality of life, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sometimes the symptoms can go away or come back.
They can include fatigue, fever, malaise, trouble breathing, cough, chest pain, heart palpitations and dizziness. People can also have foggy thinking, depression, anxiety, headaches and sleep problems, as well as loss of smell and taste. Diarrhea, stomach pain, muscle ache, rash and changes in the menstrual cycle are also possible."
How Long-COVID Risk Varies By Variant - MedicineNet Health News
The Omicron variant is less likely to give you long COVID than a previous strain of the virus, British researchers say.
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