COVID-19 cases are dropping off across the United States, but there are still thousands of cases every day, many of them linked to the omicron variant.
What to expect: The omicron variant has been seen as a mild version of the novel coronavirus.
Yes, but: Mild doesn’t always mean mild. Mild symptoms could mean something like the flu or a cold, or it could mean such a severe cold that you barely miss hospitalization, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
- “The big question is whether or not you’re able to recuperate at home,” Carl Lambert Jr., a Chicago-based family physician, told HuffPost.
Symptoms: Dr. Suneet Singh, the medical director of CareHive Health in Austin, Texas., told Yahoo! the omicron variant symptoms are often different than the normal COVID-19 symptoms. Singh listed these omicron variant symptoms to look out for:
- Runny nose.
- Stuffy nose.
- Sore throat.
Business Insider used data from the Zoe COVID Symptom Study to identify the top 14 omicron variant symptoms, which include:
- Runny nose
- Headache.
- Fatigue.
- Sneezing.
- Sore throat.
- Persistent cough.
- Hoarse voice.
- Chills or shivers.
- Fever.
- Dizziness.
- Brain fog.
- Muscle pains.
- Loss of smell.
- Chest pain.