{"id":5722,"date":"2024-01-16T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:18:59","slug":"how-covid-19s-symptoms-have-changed-with-each-new-variant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/16\/how-covid-19s-symptoms-have-changed-with-each-new-variant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19&#8217;s symptoms have changed with each new variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20240111-covid-19-how-does-its-symptoms-differ-from-flu\">BBC<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With a new variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus causing a spike in cases, it is demonstrating just how much the disease has changed since the pandemic began \u2013 and what happened to &#8220;Covid toe&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For almost four years, I&#8217;ve managed to dodge Covid-19,&#8221; TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1741190347546415230\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted a fortnight ago<\/a>. &#8220;But it finally got me. At the end of 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hasan added that his symptoms were thankfully mild, but he is just one of many people reporting their first ever positive test for the virus responsible for the pandemic, Sars-CoV-2, four years on from when it first began spreading around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the symptoms of JN.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The version of the Covid-19 virus behind the latest spike in infections shares many of the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/whats-new\/SARS-CoV-2-variant-JN.1.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">same symptoms as earlier variants of Sars-CoV-2&nbsp;<\/a>: a sore throat, fatigue, headache and a cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Differences in the symptoms often depend on a person&#8217;s underlying health and their immune system. But some clinicians are reporting some of the most common first signs of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/jn1-the-dominant-variant-in-the-covid-surge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infection by JN.1 are diarrhoea<\/a>\u00a0or a headache.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aao-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ohn.384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fewer patients are losing their sense of smell<\/a>\u00a0with variants closely-related to Omicron, of which JN.1 is a subvariant.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 cases are starting to rise again as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/whats-new\/JN.1-update-2024-01-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">result of the JN.1 Covid variant<\/a>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/laninf\/article\/PIIS1473-3099(23)00744-2\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appeared last September<\/a>\u00a0in France. The variant accounts for around 60% of new infections in early January,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to a data tracker<\/a>\u00a0from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC With a new variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus causing a spike in cases, it is demonstrating just how much the disease has changed since the pandemic began \u2013 and what happened to &#8220;Covid toe&#8221;. &#8220;For almost four years, I&#8217;ve managed to dodge Covid-19,&#8221; TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan&nbsp;tweeted a fortnight ago. &#8220;But it finally got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}