The variant is spreading rapidly around the world, though information on how seriously ill people fall after catching it is still limited.
Some data on symptoms caused by the Omicron variant has emerged from countries such as South Africa, where some of the earliest samples were detected.on December 8:"The symptoms associated with the Omicron variant are very similar to those with previous SARS-CoV-2 [COVID] variants, including fever, body aches , cough and shortness of breath in more severe disease.
In addition, some early data on symptoms were released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on December 10. The majority of these cases, 79 percent, occurred in people who had had their first round of COVID vaccines at least 14 days before they fell ill or tested positive, including 14 who had received an additional or booster dose.
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