Omicron- New COVID-19 Variant a concern
What made the Omicron variant different from those before it, what changed clinically, and what it meant for prevention and treatment.
COVID-New Variant Omnicron
Variant emergence is a recurring feature of respiratory viral epidemiology, and each wave raises the same cardiology questions in a slightly different form. Rather than tracking any particular strain, the posts collected here examine what shifting transmissibility and disease severity mean for cardiovascular services: how chest pain and dyspnoea pathways behave when respiratory illness is widespread, how to interpret troponin and natriuretic peptides during intercurrent infection, the vulnerability of patients with established heart failure or valve disease, and how elective and structural programmes absorb disruption. Preventive framing runs throughout. See also our prevention and lifestyle titles and the cardiology book bundles.