COVID Stratus Variant: Early Symptoms & UK Surge
- * Current Illness Trends: There's a spike in illnesses as children return to school, likely due to increased close contact and potentially lower hygiene levels.
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* Current Illness Trends: There’s a spike in illnesses as children return to school, likely due to increased close contact and potentially lower hygiene levels.
* Dominant Symptom: A current version of an illness (likely COVID-19, given the image) is causing sore throats and hoarse voices more frequently than typical symptoms like cough, fever, and aches.
* Immune Evasion: This version of the illness appears to be able to evade the immune system, even in people who have had it before.
* Severity: While it might potentially be more likely to make you sick, the text doesn’t explicitly state it’s more severe just that it’s better at infecting people regardless of prior exposure.