{"id":5767,"date":"2024-01-23T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2024-01-23T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T02:36:17","slug":"what-is-covid-rebound-doctors-explain-common-symptoms-and-whos-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/23\/what-is-covid-rebound-doctors-explain-common-symptoms-and-whos-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"What is COVID rebound? Doctors explain common symptoms and who&#8217;s at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/covid-rebound-symptoms-rcna135234\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With COVID levels high across most of the country, some people may find themselves experiencing symptoms of COVID rebound in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCOVID rebound is a recurrence of COVID symptoms after initial improvement or a new positive test after a negative one,\u201d Dr. Scott Roberts, associate medical director of infection prevention at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, tells TODAY.com.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the pandemic, COVID rebound was thought to be mostly caused by taking the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, as many of these patients would notice symptoms returning a few days after finishing treatment. But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7251a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent report<\/a>&nbsp;from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no consistent link between taking Paxlovid and those who experienced COVID rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a review on what we know so far about COVID rebound, as the U.S. continues to ride its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/news\/covid-wave-2024-rcna132529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second-largest COVID wave<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is COVID rebound?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID rebound occurs when COVID symptoms stop and then return days later. It&#8217;s not exactly clear why it happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current evidence suggests COVID rebound usually occurs three to seven days after an infection resolves in patients, according to the December CDC report.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"zEcq noBdDXZr k\"><!-- zEcq noBdDXZr k --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News With COVID levels high across most of the country, some people may find themselves experiencing symptoms of COVID rebound in the coming weeks. \u201cCOVID rebound is a recurrence of COVID symptoms after initial improvement or a new positive test after a negative one,\u201d Dr. Scott Roberts, associate medical director of infection prevention at [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/5767","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=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}