{"id":557537,"date":"2026-04-01T04:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557537\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:39:15","slug":"what-to-know-about-cicada-the-new-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557537\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About Cicada, the New COVID Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the symptoms of new COVID variant?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The symptoms aren&#8217;t different from those of previous COVID variants: sore throat, fever or chills, headache, cough, body aches, and runny nose. They are similar to symptoms of the flu, so the best way to know if you have COVID is to test yourself. Most symptoms last for a few days to a week.<\/p>\n<p>Do COVID tests still work on Cicada?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">It&#8217;s still a bit of a question mark, Schaffner says; the data aren&#8217;t yet available. But some experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/what-we-know-about-the-new-cicada-covid-19-variant\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">say<\/a> that since these tests look for parts of the virus that change less easily, they should still be able to detect Cicada.<\/p>\n<p>Does Cicada cause worse disease than previous variants?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">It\u2019s not clear yet whether Cicada\u2019s mutations are causing worse COVID disease compared to previous variants, or whether it will become a dominant strain if it\u2019s able to evade the human immune system. Doctors will need to study more cases to know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are the symptoms of new COVID variant? The symptoms aren&#8217;t different from those of previous COVID variants:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4000,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-557537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}