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New variant increases the risk of ‘longer COVID,’ warns expert
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New variant increases the risk of ‘longer COVID,’ warns expert

by London Medical Laboratory  Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Now it’s “longer COVID.” New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 30% of long COVID sufferers have had symptoms for more than two years. New cases of long COVID are also increasing just as the new “Kraken” XBB1.5 subvariant looks set to sweep the U.K. The...

What you need to know about the new variant of COVID-19
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What you need to know about the new variant of COVID-19

(HealthDay)—For Americans who are worried about the new coronavirus variant that is circulating in Britain, experts in the United States urge everyone to stay calm. So far, the new variant only seems to spread more easily, with no evidence of higher virulence (ability to cause harm), researchers at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago explained.  “There’s no...