Among the most commonly reported symptoms of the coronavirus are a sore throat and cough.
– that is filling up hospitals and prompting the Centers for Disease Control to advise many people to go back into masks.
And, with Christmas and New Year’s coming soon, the numbers, particularly those of COVID-19 cases, are likely to keep climbing.from Dec. 8 show just under 14% of Americans now live in communities rated as having “high” COVID-19 community levels, up from 4.9% the previous week. Another 38% of Americans are in a “medium” area and 48% are in “low” areas.The symptoms of COVID-19 have changed as the virus has developed new variant and adjusted to vaccines.
the new symptoms are tied to new dominant subvariants – BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 – that now comprise the majority of cases in the U.S.a joint effort by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, King’s College London, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the health app ZOE, has tracked symptoms of the virus as they have changed.
“Since the start of the pandemic, ZOE has continually reported the most common COVID symptoms and how they’ve changed over time. These symptoms have changed for a few reasons, including the introduction of vaccines and the emergence of new variants,” the company said in a statement. “Like every virus, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is constantly evolving, in terms of its ability to spread and the symptoms it causes.
Since then, a headache has become less prevalent but still remains in the top 10. Instead, patients are more likely to experience a blocked nose, sneezing or “a cough without phlegm.”
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