Sore throat appears to be a common, early symptom of an Omicron infection.
on December 22, the study's principal investigator, Tim Spector, said around 57% of people with Omicron reported sore throats.at a Christmas party in Norway found that 72% of infected people developed a sore throat, which lasted about three days, on average. Most of the infected people were vaccinated with two doses of an mRNA vaccine.Moreno said most patients at his clinic are vaccinated, which explains why their symptoms tend to be milder and relatively short-lived.
"One of the things we know with Omicron is that it seems to have a different set of symptoms as opposed to other variants," Dr. Andy Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider.
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