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Covid-
19: One Sign You May Have Omicron Could Show Up On Your Skin
A sign that you may have become infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant may show up on your skin. A ZOE study conducted in the United Kingdom analyzed thousands of reports of Omicron symptoms uploaded to an app by the British public. The top five symptoms recorded were: Runny nose, Headache, Fatigue (both mild or severe), Sneezing, Sore throat. Loss of appetite and brain fog were both also reported as common symptoms in the survey. A skin rash should also be considered as a key sign of COVID, according to a report in the Daily Express. "The most common skin signs of Covid seem t…
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Covid-
19: Study Of Omicron Outbreak At Christmas Party Reveals Three New Symptoms
Click here for a new, updated story - COVID-19: Study Reveals How Long It Takes Omicron Symptoms To Show Up A new study conducted during an outbreak of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Omicron variant has revealed three new symptoms for the strain, but ones that are very familiar with the initial symptoms after the novel coronavirus first surfaced around this time two years ago. Namely, muscle aches, a loss of taste, and a decline in smell. About 58 percent of those surveyed reported experiencing muscles aches in a survey following an outbreak of 111 confirmed or probable Omicron…
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Covid-
19: Two More Omicron Variant Symptoms Emerge
Click here for a new, updated story - COVID-19: Study Of Omicron Outbreak At Christmas Party Reveals Three New Symptom As more becomes known about the highly transmissible COVID-19 Omicron variant from both studies and anecdotal evidence, new symptoms of the strain continue to emerge. Brand-new reports are now surfacing that those infected with the strain may experience loss of appetite and brain fog. That's according to a ZOE study conducted in the United Kingdom that analyzed thousands of COVID symptoms uploaded to an app by the British public. Though they weren't among th…
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Covid-
19: New Omicron Variant Symptom Emerges
Click here for a new, updated story - COVID-19: Two More Omicron Variant Symptoms Emerge A new symptom of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Omicron variant has emerged in addition to five others previously reported. A ZOE study conducted in the United Kingdom analyzed thousands of COVID symptoms uploaded to an app by the British public revealed that Omicron might feel like the traditional cold in many ways. The top five symptoms recorded in the ZOE app were: Runny nose, Headache, Fatigue (both mild or severe), Sneezing, Sore throat. Now, information is emerging from physicians …
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Covid-
19: Study Reveals Top 5 Symptoms Of Omicron Variant
Click here for an updated story - COVID-19: New Omicron Variant Symptom Emerges, Physicians Say COVID-19 cases are spiking ahead of the holidays, with the Omicron variant now having been identified in 48 states and 89 countries. “We’ve seen cases of Omicron among those who are both vaccinated and boosted and we believe these cases are milder or asymptomatic because of vaccine protection,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House COVID-19 briefing on Friday, Dec. 17. Preliminary lab studies indicate Omicron may not a…
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19: New Variant's 50 Mutations Make It Different From Original Virus, NIH Director Says
Why are scientists so concerned about the new strain of COVID-19? Simply stated, when it comes to Omicron, it's all about the sheer numbers -- as in the number of mutations. "The main thing that has us focused on this and has caused us to be sort of 24-7 on Zoom calls the last four days is that it has so many mutations," Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said Sunday morning, Nov. 28 on CNN. "Omicron has more than 50 variants that make it different from the original virus, including more than 30 that are in the spike protein." The spike proteins …
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Covid-
19: New 'Delta Plus' Variant Being Carefully Monitored, CDC Director Says
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the new COVID-19 variant, "Delta plus," is being carefully monitored by health officials. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky discussed the new strain in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Oct. 24. When asked if she is worried about "Delta plus," which is surging in the United Kingdom, Walensky said the agency is following the genomic sequencing of the variant "very carefully." "It is a variant of the delta variant," she said. "It has several mutations on the spike protein that we have …
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19: Link Shown Between Severity, Death From Virus And Smoking, New Study Reveals
A new study has found a strong link between smoking cigarettes and severe outcomes from COVID-19 infection. According to a report from News Medical, researchers for the UK Biobank study looked at "primary care records, COVID-19 test results, hospital admissions data and death certificates" to search for associations between smoking and hospitalizations and death from COVID-19. The news site reported that 59 percent of participants have never smoked, 37 percent were former smokers and 4 percent were smokers. The study found that current smokers were 80 percent more likely to be …
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19: Study Reveals Who's Most At Risk For Breakthrough Infections
Researchers have identified groups of vaccinated people who may be the most at risk for suffering severe outcomes from COVID-19 breakthrough infections. According to a report from Medical News Today, the study looked at more than 6 million people who have received one or two doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom. One of the paper's co-authors, Dr. Aziz Sheikh, said only a small number of the more than 5 million people who received two vaccine doses remained at risk for COVID-19 hospitalization and death after being vaccinated. "We saw relatively few deaths in individuals wh…
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19: Cape Cod Cluster Among Vaccinated Led To Mask Shift; 'The War Has Changed' CDC Says
A cluster of hundreds of COVID-19 cases on Cape Cod, many involving vaccinated people, prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its policy on mask-wearing this week. The July 4th outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts showed that vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant could spread the virus. A total of nearly 900 infections have been linked to the cluster. The high viral load of the Delta variant, which was first discovered in India late last year, makes it possible for vaccinated who become infected through breakthrough cases to spread the virus i…
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Covid-
19: Delta Variant As Contagious As Chickenpox, Internal CDC Document Says
The Delta variant, which now accounts for about 85 percent of new COVID-19 cases in the United States, is as contagious as chickenpox, according to internal documents by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Details of those documents were reported on Friday, July 30 by both The Washington Post and New York Times. The high viral load of the Delta variant makes it possible for vaccinated who become infected through breakthrough cases to spread the virus in some cases, the CDC now says. “We have studies that have now shown that even on the first swab on somebody with a…
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19: Unvaccinated Woman Dies After Contracting Two Strains At Same Time, Scientists Say
Scientists are warning that it's possible to contract two COVID-19 strains at the same time following the death of an unvaccinated woman who was infected by different variants. The woman, age 90, was admitted to a Belgium hospital to treat injuries from a fall and tested positive for COVID that day, according to a report by the European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Though she did not display symptoms when admitted and displayed good oxygen saturation, she quickly developed rapidly worsening respiratory problems and died less than a week later. When resp…
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