Here's what to know about omicron symptoms now and the possible winter COVID-19 surge.
Meanwhile, some of the symptoms that were previously considered classic signs of COVID-19 — loss of taste or smell, fever, shortness of breath — are not ranking as highly anymore, a“The general impression among clinicians is that omicron tends to stay more in the upper respiratory tract,” Dr. Otto Yang,
are officially recorded now. The protection gained from vaccination and previous infections could also have reduced the overall severity of symptoms over time, the experts noted.The current landscape of COVID-19 variants Previously, when alpha and delta emerged in one part of the world, “they were clearly way more transmissible than everything else that was circulating worldwide,” Anne Hahn, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher studying viral evolution at the Yale School of Public Health, told TODAY.
"It's been overcrowded for quite a while, and all these subvariants of omicron are kind of jockeying for the lead," he said.
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