Month: January 2022

Symptoms of the omicron variant differ from past coronavirus symptoms, making them difficult to detect unless tested for COVID-19. According to health experts, a new and unique symptom of the omicron variant has emerged: Night sweats. “People aren’t reporting a loss of taste or smell as much with omicron as they were with previous variants,” Dr. John Torres, NBC News senior medical correspondent told the Today Show. “But people are reporting night sweats, which is a very strange symptom that they say they’re having.” But what are night sweats exactly and how did they get associated with COVID-19? Here is what you need to know. Night sweats are “repeated episodes of extreme perspiration” that might soak your bedsheets, according to The Mayo Clinic. They are often related to an ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans each day are catching the Omicron variant of COVID-19. If they end up in the hospital, no matter the reason, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will report them as a COVID-19 hospitalization. From adults with broken arms to kids experiencing mental health crises, a vast swathe of the Americans testing positive for COVID-19 in hospitals aren’t there for COVID-19 at all. And yet, much of the media continues to report on record case numbers and skyrocketing hospitalizations without nuance. Headline: record COVID hospitalizations. Article: in at least two places where we have data, 2/3 of hospitalizations are not caused by COVID. Just because you bury the truth in there, doesn’t mean the headline isn’t misleading. https://t.co/Btiyqt133c...

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Cases of the omicron variant continue to soar across the country. With the rising case numbers, experts are speaking out about what COVID-19 symptoms you’ll see. Dr. Suneet Singh, the medical director of CareHive Health in Austin, Texas., told Yahoo! the omicron variant symptoms are much different than what we saw before with the original strain of the coronavirus. The top three omicron variant symptoms to look for are: Runny nose. Stuffy nose. Sore throat. Quote: “Omicron, (meanwhile), is less likely to invade the lungs. Instead, omicron is causing more upper respiratory symptoms,” Singh said. Flashback: Dr. Robert Quigley, the senior vice president and global medical director for International SOS, a leading medical and security services company, told me that COVID-19 ...