Deltacron symptoms: The top deltacron COVID symptoms to expect – Deseret News

Scientists said that they have identified a new hybrid version of the coronavirus called deltacron which combines the delta and the omicron variants of the virus.

Driving the news: The variant is considered a recombinant virus, meaning it has melded-together genetic information from both variants, per NBC News.

What theyre saying: Delta basically grabbed omicrons spike protein, Jeremy Kamil, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, told NBC News. This is essentially delta trying to hang on by plagiarizing from omicron.

Symptoms: Dr. Etienne Simon-Loriere, a virologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, told The New York Times that the body will often recognize the deltacron variant as the omicron variant, meaning your COVID-19 symptoms from deltacron may resemble the omicron variant.

Business Insiderused data from theZoe COVID Symptom Studyto compile a list of thetop 14 omicron variant symptoms, which include:

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