The variant of COVID ómicron appeared in 2021 and since then it has accelerated infections due to its high transmissibility. About the first symptom of the disease it has been said that it can be fever and runny nose.
According to American specialists from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the first symptom is a sore throat.
In addition, the Mexican health authorities add hoarseness and cough as the first signs of omicron in organisms. For this reason, he recommended that at the slightest discomfort they isolate themselves to avoid contagion.
Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Health, said that ómicron causes clinical symptoms that are distinguished by a hoarse voice.
“The vast majority have a mild clinical picture, with hoarseness, some may have a fever, with a dry cough, but not with lung damage that makes them reach the hospital,” he explained at a press conference.
Other symptoms that occur with the omicron variant of COVID are:
- Fatigue.
- Headache.
- Runny nose and sneezing.
- Night sweats.
- Mental confusion.
- loss of appetite
Is isolating yourself for a maximum of seven days enough for Ómicron?
Alejandro Macías, infectologist and former commissioner against the AH1N1 influenza that emerged in Mexico in 2009, assured that the omicron variant “enters and leaves quickly” from the body, for which he asked to isolate himself for a maximum of seven days, since the country could be left “without people to work.”
Through his Twitter account, the so-called “Czar” of Influenza explained that, after January 1, people infected with COVID-19 must assume that they have the omicron variant, therefore, he sees it reasonable for them to return to work. on the eighth day, counting the first day of symptoms.
He even exemplified the situation in the United Kingdom, where people infected with the omicron variant are isolated for less than a week. Given this, he considered that five days are almost as effective as seven or 10 of isolation.
Previously healthy people who have covid after January 1, let’s assume they have the omicron variant; get in fast and get out fast. It is reasonable that they can return to work on the 8th. day after the onset of symptoms. If we isolate 14 of them, we will be left with no people to work with.
– Alejandro Macias (@doctormacias) January 13, 2022
Medicines do not stop the infection, but they do prevent death
In a radio interview, the specialist stated that the fourth wave that Mexico is experiencing It is the “last gasp of the pandemic”, because, from his point of view, the coronavirus “has already reached where it had to go”.
He explained that the increase in positive cases will most likely continue for two or three weeks, but after this period, if the correct sanitary measures are followed, infections will begin to decrease and little by little the disease will end at a point of equilibrium. pandemic.
Regarding vaccines, Macías reaffirmed that the drugs they do not stop the infection, but they do prevent death and the collapse of the economy and institutions. For this reason, he recalled that France, Israel, Denmark and Ireland have the highest infection rate with new cases of COVID-19 due to the omicron variant, despite their high levels of vaccination.