Different COVID variants may give rise to different long COVID symptoms: study

Different COVID variants may give rise to different long COVID symptoms: study A new European study published last week found that different variants of COVID-19 may result in different long COVID-19 symptoms. The study, which will be presented at the European Congress of Cli… srai The Hill

A new European study published last week found that different variants of COVID-19 may result in different long COVID-19 symptoms.

The study, which will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Lisbon in April, found that the alpha variant of the coronavirus led to muscle aches and pain, insomnia, brain fog, anxiety and depression when compared to the original strain of the virus.

The research conducted by Michele Spinicci and colleagues at the University of Florence and Careggi University Hospital in Italy, suggested that people with more severe infections who required immunosuppressant drugs, such as tocilizumab, were six times as likely to report long COVID-19 symptoms, according to the release.

The retrospective observational study was conducted with 428 patients who were treated at the Careggi University Hospital’s post-COVID-19 outpatient service between June 2020 and June 2021. ...