Omicron causes mild ailments in most vaccinated people.

The symptoms of omicron differ from those of the previous strains, but there is very little information on it so far. It is only obvious that in the vaccinated it causes a milder course of the disease.

According to Delfi.lt, a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Processes, which helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in making decisions on vaccines, Catherine Peling noted that experts have just begun to collect information about this strain of coronavirus, its impact on vaccinated, unvaccinated people and those who have had COVID-19.

It is already known that people who become infected with omicron begin to get sick earlier, and, according to nbcnews.com, the symptoms are different from those of other strains. According to preliminary data, omicron causes mild ailments similar to the common cold in most vaccinated people. Peling listed the most prominent symptoms of the omicron: cough, fatigue or weakness, sore throat and runny nose. At the same time, there is still no complete scientific data on the effect of the strain on the body, it is only clear that if a person is vaccinated, especially after receiving a booster dose, omicron causes a less serious infection.

One unvaccinated man, a 60-year-old Houston resident, is known to have died after being infected with an omicron last Monday. At the same time, there is growing evidence that the omicron strain does not affect the lungs as strongly as the previous strain. However, a study by the University of Hong Kong found that the omicron strain is less harmful to the lungs, but covers the airways faster. According to Hugh Cassier, director of Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital in New York, the omicron’s symptoms are more reminiscent of bronchitis than pneumonia.

Initial limited data indicate that the incubation period of the omicron strain is shorter than that of other strains, with an infected person showing symptoms after a week or even three days, and sometimes even earlier.