Last winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, researchers say.
Last winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause lingering symptoms, known as "long Covid", a UK investigation, inThe King's College London team looked at data from nearly 100,000 people who logged their Covid symptomsJust over 4% of those infected during the Omicron wave had logged long Covid symptoms, compared with 10% of those infected in the preceding, Delta, wave.
"What's more, nothing in these findings tells us what might happen with a different new variant, in terms of long Covid risk."
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