Although the pandemic has look post-pandemic in Argentina, cases of coronavirus grew this past week for the third time in a row. There are specialists who say that it is “premature” to speak of the beginning of a new wave, but they do not rule it out. And if now you hear that”nothing else gives you a cold“Vulnerable groups remain at risk.
In the midst of counterpoints between what it is y what it appears to be —and with our guard down due to a health crisis that has already “softened” us–, the specialists interviewed by Clarion they give us certainty from the most visible: Covid-19 versus “Covid-22”. What does the virus do to the body today?
Since 2020, the era Wuhan of the covid, the symptoms changed (a lot). This is the era of Omicron and his sub-variants. He mutated the host and changed who hosts it. In addition, since there are no restrictions and there is almost no mask, he lives with the historical winter respiratory diseases.
That’s why we doubt “if there is a cough but no fever”and “it’s a sore throat but not like angina” and we evaluated even the color of the mucus.
While, hardly anyone swabs anymorethere are immunosuppressed people who receive a fifth dose in the City and Province, the National Ministry of Health has just announced the Covid vaccination from 6 months, and Pfizer and Moderna, the vaccines acclaimed by scientific critics for their RNA technology messenger, advance in an upgrade for Omicron’s mutations.
Symptoms of yesterday and (not) today
In the country we have all the subvariants of Omicron (technically, sublineages) considered “of interest” or “of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO). This includes BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1.
The latest official report on genomic sequencing, released by the PAIS Project and the Malbrán Institute, details that until July 1, when cases were down, the fourth wave was from the BA.2 lineage. But that BA.2.12.1 had been found between 5-26% of the cases and BA.4/BA.5 between 6-25%.
The latter, BA.5, is already branded in the world as “the worst variant”. Not because she is more harmful but because she generated a global increase in cases: 30% more only in 15 days.
It is worth returning to the question: what symptoms changed (and why) from 2020 to today’s subvariants?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS), a UK body that does an exhaustive analysis of a very large percentage of cases, breaks down the associated symptoms and how they were varying in the different waves.
They say “fewer and fewer symptoms are being reported.” They evaluated the classic combo. The one from 2020 it is fought at home with paracetamol: cough, tiredness, headache, body and throat.
“The symptom of loss of taste and smell is at its lowest levels since Ómicron is predominant (December 2021),” details the ONS. tos (whether it dries or not is not clear) has been maintained since the start of the pandemic, followed by throat pain y headache. The fever – so “buchona” of the infection in the previous waves – is left behind by the diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain and body pain.