Symptoms
Anywhere from one-fifth to one half of SARS-CoV-2 carriers are asymptomatic. In the rest, the virus can manifest as an unwitting selection from a buffet of coronavirus symptoms - Rahul Rao
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What Are the Symptoms of Omicron?
With cases of Omicron rising throughout the United States, before and after the holidays, Americans are scrambling to distinguish the symptoms of this new variant from those of other coronavirus variants, including Delta.
Most P.C.R. and rapid antigen tests can detect Omicron — the Food and Drug Administration has noted there are only a few tests that don’t — but results do not indicate to the user which variant they are infected with, leaving people to guess.
Can Omicron symptoms be distinguished from Delta symptoms? Some symptom differences have emerged from preliminary data, but experts are not certain they are meaningful. Data released in December from South Africa’s…
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Basically, the vaccines enable the immune system to detect the virus more quickly. Symptoms may therefore appear earlier, when levels of the virus are still too low to be detected by a rapid test. The discordance between symptoms and test results may seem scary, but it’s a promising sign that the vaccine has effectively fortified the immune response.
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Omicron and Its Symptoms: What to Know as Americans Are Catching the New Variant
The most commonly reported symptoms among U.S. patients with Omicron-variant infections were mild, according to the CDC, and include: Cough, Fatigue, Congestion, Runny nose...
Scientists explore how omicron symptoms differ from other COVID signs
The symptom differences between people infected with the omicron variant versus the delta variant are really more similar than they are different.
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What we know about the symptoms — and the severity — of the omicron variant
"It's mostly that runny nose, sore throat and nasal congestion," says Dr. John Vanchiere, the associate director of the Center for Emerging Viral Threats at LSU Health Shreveport. "The cough is milder [than previous variants], if there's any cough at all, and fever seems to be a little less common."
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Here’s what we know so far about the long-term symptoms of COVID-19
Besides the well-described symptoms of fever, cough and loss of smell are other effects, including fatigue, rash, headache, abdominal pain and diarrhoea. People who develop more severe forms of the disease also report confusion, severe muscle pains, cough and shortness of breath.
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What Are the Symptoms of Omicron?
While there are subtle differences between the latest coronavirus strain and previous ones, so far the signs of infection look pretty similar.
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People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms.
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