If You Have This Symptom, You re Less Likely to Have the New COVID Strain
By Lauren Gray of Best Life |
If You Have This Symptom, You re Less Likely to Have the New COVID Strain
As COVID cases soared across the nation last month, news emerged that a more contagious variant of COVID-19 originating in the U.K. had made its way to U.S. soil. Estimated to be up to 70 percent more transmissible not to mention potentially more deadly, according to English Prime Minister
Boris Johnson the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that the U.K. strain could quickly become dominant in the U.S. by March. To help tame it, the U.K. s Office for National Statistics (ONS) is racing to gather information about this particular variant including how to spot it. Read on for the symptoms that differentiate this strain, and for more on where the mutations are cropping up in the U.S., find out How Many Cases of the New COVID Strains Are in Your State.
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People infected with the more transmissible U.K. coronavirus strain were more likely to report symptoms like cough, fatigue, muscle aches and sore throat, according to a survey.
The findings from U.K.’s Office for National Statistics were posted Wednesday, on a population sample from British households taken between Nov. 15 to Jan. 16.
The strain has been dominant in the U.K. since the middle of December, due to rapid spread, according to Prof. Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and chief investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial. The strain is believed to spread about 50% more easily from person to person, and U.K. scientists recently said the strain could be more deadly.
Most Common U.K. COVID Variant Symptoms Revealed in Survey
On 1/27/21 at 12:36 PM EST
Symptoms such as cough, fatigue, muscle ache and sore throat appear to be more common in people who test positive for the B.1.1.7 COVID variant compared to other versions of the virus, a survey conducted in the U.K. has found.
The survey, which was published by the U.K. Office for National Statistics (ONS), also found that participants were slightly less likely to report a loss of taste or smell.
The B.1.1.7 variant was first detected in the U.K. toward the end of last year and has now been found in several countries around the world, as well as more than 20 U.S. states.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 17.3 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 8.6 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 11.8 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 146,640
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at an elevated 108,957
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at an elevated 4,087
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 7.1 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened, hospitalizations improved, and deaths worsened
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a lab equipment-themed mask as he arrives for a COVID-19 briefing with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)