{"id":6984,"date":"2024-07-09T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6984"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:45:57","slug":"playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/09\/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Playing COVID roulette\u2019: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-07-08\/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet\">LA Times<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the summer travel season picks up, COVID cases and hospitalizations are rising in Los Angeles County \u2014 and some of those recently reinfected are finding their latest bout to be the worst yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no signs at this point that the latest coronavirus variants are producing more severe illness, either nationally or in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some doctors say this latest COVID rise challenges a long-held myth: Although new COVID infections are often mild compared with a first brush with the disease, they still can cause\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/reinfection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">severe illness<\/a>. Even if someone doesn\u2019t need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized, people sometimes describe agonizing symptoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe dogma is that every time you get COVID, it\u2019s milder. But I think we need to keep our minds open to the possibility that some people have worse symptoms,\u201d said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each time you get COVID, he said, is \u201ckind of like playing COVID roulette.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This underscores the need for caution during summer travel and activities, even though the overall risk remains relatively mild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-07-08\/playing-covid-roulette-some-infected-by-flirt-variants-report-their-most-unpleasant-symptoms-yet\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times As the summer travel season picks up, COVID cases and hospitalizations are rising in Los Angeles County \u2014 and some of those recently reinfected are finding their latest bout to be the worst yet. There are no signs at this point that the latest coronavirus variants are producing more severe illness, either nationally [&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":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","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\/6984","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=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}