The alphabet soup of Covid variants continues to grow, but the symptoms we’ve come to recognize in those ubiquitous health screening questionnaires remain consistent.
Omicron’s BA.5 subvariant—comprising more than 75 percent of the state’s Covid cases as of the Department of Health’s July 27 report—most often shows up as a cough, sore throat, runny nose, fever and chills, muscle pain, fatigue, or shortness of breath. And the occasional loss of smell or bout of nausea.
But BA.5 and its omicron siblings have “greatly diverged from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain” according to UW Medicine. Omicron’s mutated spike proteins allow the subvariant to bind with host receptors at more than
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