{"id":5169,"date":"2024-03-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2024-03-28T04:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T08:51:01","slug":"omicron-linked-to-more-long-covid-19-cases-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/omicron-linked-to-more-long-covid-19-cases-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron linked to more long COVID-19 cases: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron coronavirus variant could be causing more cases of long COVID than earlier versions of the disease, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>A study of more than 11,000 Western Australians infected in 2022 found almost one in five continued to suffer symptoms three months after they initially tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Epidemiologist Mulu Woldegiorgis said the findings show the Omicron variant puts patients at greater risk of developing long COVID than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is more than double the prevalence reported in a review of Australian data from earlier in the pandemic, and higher than similar studies done in the UK and Canada,\u201d she said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron coronavirus variant could be causing more cases of long COVID than earlier versions of the disease, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>A study of more than 11,000 Western Australians infected in 2022 found almost one in five continued to suffer symptoms three months after they initially tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Epidemiologist Mulu Woldegiorgis said the findings show the Omicron variant puts patients at greater risk of developing long COVID than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is more than double the prevalence reported in a review of Australian data from earlier in the pandemic, and higher than similar studies done in the UK and Canada,\u201d she said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/omicron-linked-to-more-long-covid-19-cases-study\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Omicron linked to more long COVID-19 cases: study<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,998,18,11,55,8,14],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-australian-national-university","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-omicron","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}