Early Reports on Delta Variant Symptoms Indicate They Are Different From Normal
We've been living in a COVID world for more than 18 months now. At the outset of the pandemic, government agencies and health authorities scrambled to inform people on how to identify symptoms of the virus.
Emerging data suggest people infected with the Delta variant - the variant behind most of Australia's current cases and highly prevalent around the world - are experiencing symptoms different to those we commonly associated with COVID earlier in the pandemic.
Humans are dynamic. With our differences come different immune systems. This means the same virus can produce different signs and symptoms in different ways.
viral factors include things like speed of replication, modes of transmission, and so on. Viral factors change as the virus evolves.
host factors are specific to the individual. Age, gender, medications, diet, exercise, health and stress can all affect host factors.
