Omicron continues to break through previous daily highs for case rates in California due to its high likelihood of transmission. But why?
From San Francisco to Napa County, here's why Bay Area hospitals are experiencing overwhelming staffing shortages.
"Anywhere, not just indoors, where you're spending a long time in, like more than an hour or thirty minutes, then you really need to up your COVID precaution game," Dr. Chin-Hong said. Dr. Chin-Hong says you can be contagious for around two days before symptoms and roughly three days after. He adds the symptoms you show are often very mild since the infection is not in the meat of your lungs.
"We're not seeing inside infection like a fever that causes your whole body to be sick because the lung isn't as inflamed and we're seeing outside infection," Dr. Chin-Hong said."Runny nose, congestion, earache because it's all congested up here."Stanford University Bertarelli Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Dr. Konstantina Stankovic and her team recreated an inner ear and exposed it to COVID as a test.
Dr. Stankovic says the ears were likely infected through the nose, highlighting the importance of proper mask use.
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