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by Blahagun
1645 days ago
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I am trying really hard to make sense of the past two years and constantly giving the benefit of the doubt, but it's really not easy. So many banal things have become news worthy and it's like all of a sudden everyone completely lost their memory. If someone has told me years before that I will be reading such articles on the news I would probably tell them that they need psychological evaluation. Have people forgotten about respiratory viruses all of a sudden? Do we really need an article to tell us that respiratory viruses cause runny nose, headache and fatigue? And I'm in no way downplaying the past two years but are people forgetting that respiratory viruses have always been a serious thing? Deaths from respiratory viruses have always been in the top of the statistics, every year. |
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I suspect this is in part driven by more acute cognizance of even minor potential symptoms, combined with greater testing capacity, but if the strain is in fact causing different, less visible (but still highly contagious!) symptoms, that's somewhat concerning (although may be balanced out if it is actually accompanied by much less severe disease).
For reference:
Omicron (from the OP):
> the top five symptoms reported in the app for omicron infection were runny nose, headache, fatigue (either mild or severe), sneezing, and sore throat.
Delta [0]:
> the most commonly reported covid-19 symptoms were now headache, runny nose, and sore throat and not fever, cough, and loss of sense of smell or taste, as listed by the government.
[0] This paper was cited in the OP: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1654?ijkey=7f296b9905d4...