The omicron variant of the novel coronavirus has continued to unfold all through america, reaching weak populations who’ve tried to remain protected from the virus.
- The omicron variant has triggered COVID-19 signs that appear a lot in contrast to earlier strains.
Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency room doctor in Manhattan, described on Twitter what he’s seen so removed from the omicron variant, explaining that the present COVID-19 surge from omicron is completely different than earlier strains.
- “Right now it appeared like everybody had COVID. Like, so many. And sure, like earlier than, there have been some actually in need of breath and needing oxygen. However for many, COVID appeared to topple a fragile steadiness of an underlying sickness. It’s making folks actually sick otherwise,” Spencer wrote.
Spencer mentioned that COVID-19 instances are spreading inside the hospitals, infecting individuals who have tried to remain protected from the virus.
- “What’s additionally completely different now’s these COVID instances are sometimes in beds subsequent to sufferers who’ve achieved every part to keep away from the virus, and for whom an an infection may need a dramatic toll. The most cancers affected person on chemotherapy. These immunocompromised or severely sick with one thing else,” Spencer said.
- “However there’s simply SO a lot of it and it’s impacting sufferers in numerous methods. So even when only a tiny portion of instances want to remain within the hospital, it may well flip into an enormous inflow,” Spencer tweeted.
John Bell, a professor of drugs on the College of Oxford, instructed BBC Radio 4 that the omicron variant is “not the identical illness” as earlier COVID-19 strains because it causes fewer hospitalizations and less severe symptoms to this point.
- “The incidence of extreme illness and dying from this illness (COVID-19) has mainly not modified since all of us received vaccinated and that’s actually vital to recollect,” he instructed the BBC.
- “The horrific scenes that we noticed a 12 months in the past — intensive care models being full, numerous folks dying prematurely — that’s now historical past for my part and I feel we must be reassured that that’s more likely to proceed.”
