These serious symptoms are signs of the variant of India
If you encounter these serious symptoms, you could have a new variant of COVID.
Throughout the pandemic, Covid most often presented with the same handful of symptoms, such as coughing, fever, headaches and body pain - as well as a fewstrange aberrant values like toes and cooked eruptions. Now the new variant leading the second wave of infections in India, which also went to the United States, causing new serious symptoms you need to know.
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"Last year, we thought we learned our new enemy, but it changed"Abdul Ghafur, MD, a doctor of infectious diseases in India,said Bloomberg. "This virus has become so unpredictable."
Bloomberg has heard six doctors from all over India to get an idea of the range of symptoms of the variant of India, also called the delta-causing variant. The doctors reported having seen stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, auditory loss, joint pain, swelling around the neck, tonsillitis and blood clots.
In some cases, blood clots (called microthrombi) were so serious that they lead to gangrene, with some patients requiring amputation, a Mumbai cardiologistGanesh manudhane, MD, told Bloomberg. "I saw three to four cases the set of last year and it is now a patient a week," he added.
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The delta variant appears to be the most infectious strain of Covid so far.The times of Indiareported that a study revealed that the Delta variant is 50%contagious that the alpha variant, which started in the U.K data of public health, England suggests that the strain also has ahigher risk of hospitalization. According to Bloomberg, the variant is now present in more than 60 countries.
During a Covid-19 Work House of the White House, June 8, Covid White House Covid AdvisorAnthony Fauci, MD, said 6% of the cases sequenced in the United States are nowcaused by the Delta variant. He also noted that the data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed that thePfizer vaccine 88% is effective against symptomatic covidation cases caused by the Delta variant two weeks after the second dose.
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