A medical worker in the intensive care unit of a COVID hospital. Archival photoMOSCOW, Jan 28The omicron coronavirus strain rarely causes some of the typical symptoms of COVID-19, Alexey Vodovozov, a physician of the highest category, told Sputnik radio. Time to observe the peculiarities of the course of coronavirus infection when infected with the omicron strain, there were still few, but certain conclusions can already be drawn, he noted. Every system in the body is affected by COVID-19, but at least two typical symptoms of the disease are rare when it is caused by the omicron, Vodovozov said. In particular, difficulty breathing is not common in patients infected with this strain. “It practically does not reach the lungs, it stops in the bronchioles, that is, in the bronchial tree. I would not say that bronchiolitis with omicron is much better than pneumonia with delta, but this is a milder disease,” the doctor explained.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bce1c89be4692102b0ed8a6c459ae087.jpg" />The doctor warned about the danger of a «hidden» omicron Omicron infection,» he continued. do analyses. With the “delta”, this was already less common, and with the “omicron”, loss of smell is a rarity,” said Vodovozov. Whatever the symptoms of infection with one or another variant of the coronavirus, the best protection against the severe course of COVID-19 is vaccination.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ede703dd3d0dad0f4e7d1969b8d8ff06.jpg" />The doctor told how Omicron flows in vaccinated and unvaccinated
