Month: January 2022

Omicron variant symptoms appear to be different than the previous COVID-19 symptoms felt from earlier strains, according to experts. Cara Gluck, the chief of clinical services at the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, recently told KOCO News that the omicron variant symptoms are often less severe than the symptoms felt from the delta variant, which makes it hard for people to diagnosis. “With the weather the way that it is, people think it’s just allergies because they may not be experiencing severe illness,” she said. Omicron variant symptoms often include fever, tiredness, scratchy throat and general sickness, often seen in the common cold. “We are looking at those basic upper respiratory symptoms,” she said. It’s been hard for people nationwide to determine if the...

A heart attack seems like it can sneak up on you out of nowhere—one minute you're jogging, or receive a stressful phone call, and then next you're clutching your chest, gasping for air, asking someone to call 911. The fact that they are so common reinforces this idea—in our country, nearly 805,000 Americans have a heart attack every year, according to the CDC. That's one every 40 seconds, making it the leading killer of men and women. Half who get one die. And half of those die within the first hour of getting symptoms.  However, the truth is, many heart attacks can be predicted—and prevented. They don't have to be sudden; you can stop them from even happening (sometimes; there are many factors involved, including genetics). How? Knowing the number one cause of a h...

Israel confirmed its first case of an individual infected with both the seasonal flu and COVID-19 at the same time, authorities said on Thursday. The two infections were found in an unvaccinated pregnant woman who had mild symptoms, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva said. Some reports suggested this marked the first such dual case in the world, but reports of patients with both flu and COVID-19 surfaced in the US as early as spring 2020. Israel has seen a spike in flu cases in recent weeks, with close to 2,000 people hospitalized amid fears of a “twindemic” of the two diseases. The term refers to fears large numbers of flu cases and COVID-19 cases could overwhelm hospitals, not that many individuals will be infected with both viruses at once. Last winter those fears ...