Some distinctive COVID-19 symptoms, like loss of taste and smell, now appear to be less common.
of hospitalization or severe disease than earlier strains of the virus, which often invaded the lungs.
Dr. Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, echoed Whelan's observations about Omicron patients. Most mild Omicron cases over the course of the wave in South Africa had presented with a headache, chest pain or backache, a"slight scratchy throat or dry cough and a tiredness," Coetzee recounted. to watch for those kinds of upper respiratory symptoms, and noted that one distinctive symptom seen in cases of earlier COVID variants — loss of taste and smell —"seems to be uncommon" with Omicron.
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