Young, healthy and vaccinated – this is how the World Health Organization (WHO) described the group of people who fuel the wave of infections with the new variant of SARS-CoV-2. According to data presented by other countries where Omikron has appeared, the course of COVID-19 in people who have received vaccines is generally mild. However, it is not asymptomatic. What symptoms of Omikron infection do the vaccinated feel?
- The new strain of coronavirus is also diagnosed in vaccinated people
- The observations to date show that infection with Omikron is in most cases mild
- However, COVID-19 caused by infection with the new coronavirus variant is not asymptomatic
- The most common symptoms in vaccinated people are nausea, headache, and sore throat
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
Omicron: symptoms in vaccinated persons
Information on this subject comes from the UK, where the ZOE Covid application is operating, registering reports from millions of users from all over the country. Thanks to it, it is known that a large proportion of new COVID-19 infections affect people who are vaccinated, even those who have already received a booster dose. Project leader Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, analyzed the symptoms reported by these people.
The basis of the observation was the case of a user who organized a birthday party for 18 guests. Each of them was tested for the presence of coronavirus before the meeting, the results were negative. After the party, it turned out that one of the guests was infected. In the following week, symptoms of COVID-19 were reported by as many as 16 participants of the meeting. The tests performed confirmed the infection with Omikron.
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The symptoms of the infection these people experienced were mild. – A lot of them had nausea, mild fever, sore throat and headache. Nobody felt bad enough to need a medical consultation or a hospital stay – said prof. Spector, adding that all party attendees were double or even triple vaccinated.
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Do vaccines protect against Omicrons?
The fact that no one had ever needed hospitalization shows, according to the epidemiologist, that vaccines “markedly” reduced the severity of the disease.
As experts emphasize, observations of this type should be approached with great caution. The UK Health Safety Agency recently reported that the effectiveness of the vaccine against severe Omicron infection is not yet known, but “is expected to be much higher than protection against symptomatic disease”.
Research to date shows that protection against the new variant of the coronavirus increases significantly early after a booster dose, providing around 70-75% of the exposure. protection against symptomatic infection.
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