Less fatigue after Omicron

A new study from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) investigated participants´ symptoms of fatigue before and after infection with Delta and Omicron variants of the coronavirus. Coauthor and COFFI-researcher Kees van den Wijngaard summarises that 'In people with an infection with the delta variant, fatigue remained elevated for up to 270 days after infection compared to fatigue before infection. In the case of an infection with the omicron variant on average 120 days after an omicron infection participants were back to their pre-infection level. This does not exclude the occurrence of longer-lasting fatigue in individual study participants, but is nevertheless somewhat reassuring regarding the current population impact of newly developed post-covid related fatigue.'