Are Muscle Aches Or Back Pain A Symptom Of The Omicron COVID Variant?
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Many have experienced body aches, back pain and calf pain with a COVID infection recently. Here's why that may be happening.
At the start of the pandemic, loss of taste and smell and difficulty breathing were two of the telltale signs that you might be infected with COVID. But as the coronavirus evolved and variants emerged, different symptoms became more common. Now, back pain and muscle aches rank in the list of symptoms frequently reported with omicron.
Data from South Africa’s omicron wave first confirmed that myalgia, and back pain specifically, was on the rise in COVID patients. Similar reports have come out of India and Norway — more people infected with COVID are experiencing back pain and muscle aches. And sometimes that pain is pretty severe.