Omicron, Common cold symptoms

the medical people I interact with at the hospital are far more optimistic than I've seen them since this all began in April last year

https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/

Nobody want's to tempt fate or speak to loudly just yet ,,,its like walking on egg shells at the moment –

But there are open beds and they're not filling up just yet - in fact there are 2 more beds now than last weekend.

Kind regards,
Claire

Dr. Anthony Fauci
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-five-times-more-likely-reinfect-than-delta-study-says-2021-12-17/

When you have a larger number of people getting infected, the total amount of hospitalizations is going to be more. That's just simple math





Omicron and cold-like symptoms rapidly taking over in London

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-and-cold-like-symptoms-rapidly-taking-over-in-london

Data up to 11th December 2021

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-and-cold-like-symptoms-rapidly-taking-over-in-london

In people with at least two doses in the UK

Currently 27,000 new daily symptomatic cases

An increase of 6% from 25,411 new daily cases last week

London is currently seeing a rapid rise in positive cases

Driven by omicron

Prevalence in the UK

One in 57 currently have symptomatic COVID

ZOE’s predicted Long COVID incidence rate

1,418 people a day will go on to experience symptoms for longer than 12 weeks

Omicron symptoms

Initial analysis of symptom data from positive cases in London

To compare Delta and Omicron symptoms

London data was selected from a week in October

With the most recent week ending 10th December

This initial analysis found no clear differences in the early symptoms (3 days after test) between Delta and Omicron.

The top five symptoms reported in the ZOE app

runny nose

headache

fatigue (either mild or severe)

sneezing

sore throat

SA Patients presentations

Blocked or runny nose

Headache

Tiredness

Scratchy or sore throat

Body aches


NHS official symptoms

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/main-symptoms/

The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are:

a high temperature

a new, continuous cough

a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste

Professor Tim Spector

Omicron is set to be the dominant strain in the UK by Christmas,

and in the New Year cases could hit a peak higher than anything we’ve ever seen before.

Hopefully people now recognise the cold-like symptoms which appear to be the predominant feature of Omicron.

Ahead of Christmas, if people want to get together and keep vulnerable family members safe,

I’d recommend limiting social contact in the run up to Christmas,

and doing a few Lateral Flow Tests just before the big family gathering.