Medical workers carry a patient on a stretcher along the corridor of the COVID hospital at the Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Krasnodar. Archive photoMOSCOW, January 21The course of the disease with the omicron strain, which is increasingly being detected in Russia, is easier for adults than with previous strains, an infectious disease doctor, candidate of medical sciences, told RIA Novosti Andrey Pozdnyakov, head physician of the clinical diagnostic laboratory of Invitro-Siberia LLC. content/uploads/2022/01/3b44e3d9dfb7f5b59bfe37089f7ac227.jpg» />The doctor told who needs urgent hospitalization with omicron» He noted that «the omicron strain causes the disease in previously vaccinated, but in the vast majority of cases it occurs in the mild , or even in an erased form and does not require any therapeutic measures, except for symptomatic treatment. «
" displaces "delta&# 34;, there are many sick people, few hospitalized, the percentage of severe forms is low. I would like the same thing to happen with us,» the doctor said.
He recalled that the only effective medical therapeutic solution to prevent the development of severe forms of COVID-19 remains vaccination against this virus and revaccination within the approved time frame .
An immunologist called the first sign of «omicron» in children