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Jan 6, 2022 · Researchers are looking at data from U.S. cases to determine if the variant causes milder disease. Even if the answer is yes, they say, rates of hospitalization could be high during the surge.
- Michaeleen Doucleff
Aug 17, 2023 · Mild or severe fatigue. Sore throat. Sneezing. But other common COVID-19 symptoms, such as cough, fever, and loss of smell or taste, are still important signs to watch out for in case of any COVID ...
Dec 21, 2022 · Fatigue. Nasal congestion. Runny nose. Headache. Muscle aches. Unlike earlier variants like delta that affected the lungs, omicron and its subvariants tend to cause more upper respiratory symptoms ...
Sep 1, 2023 · The second question has been whether Omicron and its subvariants are more likely than their predecessors to cause severe disease. So far, Omicron strains have tended to be mostly mild, causing a runny nose, sore throat, and other cold-like symptoms, as opposed to lower respiratory tract symptoms. Experts say that the summer uptick in cases and ...
- kathy.katella-cofrancesco@yale.edu
Jan 19, 2022 · With omicron in particular, he adds, scratchy throat is gaining traction as a frequently reported symptom, and one that he and colleagues are seeing. Common upper respiratory symptoms associated ...
Jan 6, 2022 · And just like earlier variants, omicron can't be defined as causing only a narrow group of symptoms. As at earlier stages in the pandemic, many patients are still having some combination of fever, gastrointestinal problems, aches and pains, brain fog, weakness and, less often, trouble breathing, says Mount Sinai's Carr.
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All versions of the omicron variant seem to cause similar coldlike symptoms among vaccinated and boosted people. A runny nose is the most common. ... up from 68 percent during the first omicron wave.