JUST as the summer holiday season picks up, it seems like everyone has Covid again. And some of those recently reinfected with the bug have found the latest bout to be the most agonising yet. There is currently no hard evidence to suggest these new variants - which have been collectively nicknamed FLiRT - are actually any more nasty than their predecessors.
You would assume this round of illness might make us less ill, seeing as most of us have some level of immunity after being vaccinated and catching the disease several times. But according to Dr Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert, this doesn't mean this new version of the disease will be any nicer to us. “The dogma is that every time you get Covid, it’s milder.
But I think we need to keep our minds open to the possibility that some people have worse symptoms," he told the LA Times . Each time you get Covid, he said, is “kind of like playing Covid roulette". I have never in my life experienced something worse than the Covid diarrhoea, such horror This is because everyone's experience of Covid is a bit different, so we never really know how someone's body might react.
This can make it hard to compare current variants with previous ones. But anecdotally, people have taken to Reddit to describe the symptoms of what they have suggested is the worst variant yet. "I've had Covid a few times but this is the worst I've had it," one person said.
"Previously Covid just felt like the common cold but t.
