Loss of taste and smell, here are the symptoms of the Xec winter Covid variant

2024-10-19 12:13:00

It grows new Xec variant of the Covid coronaviruswhich according to experts has all it takes to become dominant in the world. But how to recognize it? The new Sars-CoV-2 mutants, with

Symptoms of the ‘winter variant’

A range of events which, explains to Adnkronos Salute the virologist Fabrizio Pregliascoif at one extreme it has “many asymptomatic or mild forms which then maintain the continuity of the infection”, at the other extreme it sees “a picture that simulates the actual flu: fever, muscle and joint pain as well as cough, headache throat and stuffy nose, and the loss of taste and smell is still evident. In short, forms that can be serious, even in young people”, underlines the director of the School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the State University of Milan.

“Covid in Italy is growing and will grow”

Covid in Italy is growing and will grow. The virologist once again says he is “convinced that the numerical data reported” in the official bulletins “to the number of cases is absolutely underestimated, because now no one takes the test anymore or, if they do, they self-administer it and do not record the result, therefore the real data on infections is totally missing. The objective data are the ‘hard’ ones, on hospitalizations and mortality which is numerically high: over 100 deaths recorded per week”, he recalls: 117 from 10 to 16 October, an increase compared to 100. of October 3-9.

“I repeat my mantra: we will have to continue to live with the rising and falling waves” of Sars-CoV-2 infections and “at the moment we are in a rising phase which will continue further”, warns the director of the School of Specialization in Hygiene and preventive medicine of the State University of Milan. “We know that every 4-6 months new variants of Covid arrive, tending to be more immunoevasive. Variants that are no longer ‘bad'”, but which ‘surprise’ our defenses, the hybrid immunity conferred by vaccines and infections, and “quantitatively affect the visible part of a submerged iceberg” such as that of infections.