You are more likely to have this symptom with the variant of Delta, let's say
This painful symptom is not new, but it is now reported more often in covidant patients.
The Delta variant has changed the pandemic exponentially. Thecontagious The strain has not only changed the trajectory of the virus, but also altered moreover moreCommon symptoms. As we became familiar with the most frequently reported signs of COVID at the beginning of the pandemic cough, fever, body pain, among others - we now adapt to a new iteration of the virus that can present differently.
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Several doctors told WFLA, a NBC subsidiary, that Covid patients are nowUnderstanding of the reports more frequently than what they had before. People have just believed that they have an ear infection or ear from the mill, but end up with positive tests for Covid.Nicolemanman, MD, Medical Director of TGH Urgent Care in Florida, told WFLA that this is one of the ways of the Delta variant separate from the previously dominant alpha variant.
"The reason we will see pillows is most often because the throat is so important [with the variant of delta], and the diseases come from the throat of the throat," explained from Frben. She added that Covid-related ears are "generally associated with other symptoms, including sore throat".
Kathleen Mullane, Do, PharMD, professor at the University of Chicago Medicine, has seen similar cases. "Aunusual discovery What we have seen is that there are more people complain about ears pain, which are different from the initial coronavirus infection, "she wrote.
Although doctors find pillows more often with the Delta variant, the symptom has previously been reported as a result of previous variants. Although disease control and prevention centers (CDC) do not list diseases ascommon symptom COVID, many people who have been positive for the virus have reported.Thomas Russo, MD, Professor and Head of Infectious Diseases at the University of Buffalo, saidPrevention Back in January as friendscould certainly be linked in Covid.
Leann Poston, MD, aCertified physician and health advisor For the doctor, previously saidBetter life that the pillows tend to happen because of "Fluid infected behind the eardrum, "which results from nasal congestion and sinuses, both of which are common variant symptoms.
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Covid ravaged patients' ears in another way, both before and during the spread of the delta. In June, Bloomberg reported that Indian patients - where the delta variant was dominant at the time - livedhearing loss when they had the virus. In addition, a study published byBorders in public health November 20, 2020 found that Covid didtinnitus, a common condition This causes a ringtone, roar, climate, whistling or buzzing in your ears, worse in some patients.
According to Mullane, other common symptoms of the delta variant include coughing, headaches, sore throat, muscle pain and fever. It notes that for vaccinated people, a delta variant infection tends to manifest itself "as a light upper respiratory disease with cough, headaches, sore throat and muscle pain that are short-lived."
August 10,Wesley Willeford, MD, Medical Director of the Jefferson County Health Department of Health Disease in Alabama, "said Delta Variant," You are a little beingmore likely to have a sore throat, more likely to have congestion of sinuses, and a little more likely to have a flowing nose. All these more common symptoms could lead to an ear pain.
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