The new findings shed light on so-called long Covid infections as experts warn the omicron variant could lead to a surge in U.S. hospitalizations.
Saturday that has not been peer-reviewed, scientists at the U.S.
Covid researcher Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a medical professor at the Washington University in St. Louis, told the research may help explain why long-term effects of Covid can occur in people who had only mild or asymptomatic infections. that the rapidly spreading omicron variant could lead to a surge in U.S. hospitalizations despite some evidence suggesting a lesser degree of severity in infections, compared to previous strains.
"We've got to be careful that we don't get complacent," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official, told ABC'son Sunday, cautioning that the variant"might still lead to a lot of hospitalizations in the United States." "It's extraordinarily contagious," Fauci said, adding that even though the hospitalization rate has been lower for omicron in countries like South Africa and the United Kingdom, a"high volume" of infections could still prove troublesome in the U.S., especially in light of the tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans who are still"most vulnerable" to severe illness.
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