CDC Responds to Claims About New COVID-19 Variant Symptoms

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that the new COVID-19 variant JN.1 doesn’t appear to show any new symptoms. Research from officials in the United Kingdom in a recently published report indicates that new COVID-19 symptoms may have emerged, including anxiety and worry. Several media reports last week claimed that the British survey suggested that JN.1 was causing those new symptoms, although that report did not specifically mention the JN.1 variant and only made a general reference to COVID-19. But a spokesperson for the CDC told Newsweek that “there is no data that would indicate JN.1 infection produces different symptoms from other variants,” adding, “In general, symptoms of COVID-19 tend to be wide ranging with all variants.”...