Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England

  • Matthew Whitaker,
  • Joshua Elliott,
  • Barbara Bodinier,
  • Wendy Barclay,
  • Helen Ward,
  • Graham Cooke,
  • Christl A. Donnelly,
  • Marc Chadeau-Hyam,
  • Paul Elliott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34244-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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In this study, the authors assess changing symptom profiles associated with different SARS-CoV-2 variants from May 2020 to March 2022 in England. Using data from the REACT-1 study, they find that Omicron infection is more often associated with cold and influenza-like symptoms, and less with loss of taste and smell.