Omicron, Everyday cold symptoms
June 21, 2026
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Summary
the medical people I interact with at the hospital are far more optimistic than I've seen them since this all began in April last year
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
Nobody want's to tempt fate or speak to loudly just yet ,,,its like walking on egg shells at the moment –
But there are open beds and they're not filling up just yet - in fact there are 2 more beds now than last weekend.
Kind regards,
Claire
Dr. Anthony Fauci
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-five-times-more-likely-reinfect-than-delta-study-says-2021-12-17/
When you have a larger number of people getting infected, the total amount of hospitalizations is going to be more. That's just simple math
Omicron and cold-like symptoms rapidly taking over in London
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-and-cold-like-symptoms-rapidly-taking-over-in-london
Data up to 11th December 2021
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-and-cold-like-symptoms-rapidly-taking-over-in-london
In people with at least two doses in the UK
Currently 27,000 new daily symptomatic cases
An increase of 6% from 25,411 new daily cases last week
London is currently seeing a rapid rise in positive cases
Driven by omicron
Prevalence in the UK
One in 57 currently have symptomatic COVID
ZOE’s predicted Long COVID incidence rate
1,418 people a day will go on to experience symptoms for longer than 12 weeks
Omicron symptoms
Initial analysis of symptom data from positive cases in London
To compare Delta and Omicron symptoms
London data was selected from a week in October
With the most recent week ending 10th December
This initial analysis found no clear differences in the early symptoms (3 days after test) between Delta and Omicron.
The top five symptoms reported in the ZOE app
runny nose
headache
fatigue (either mild or severe)
sneezing
sore throat
SA Patients presentations
Blocked or runny nose
Headache
Tiredness
Scratchy or sore throat
Body aches
NHS official symptoms
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/symptoms/main-symptoms/
The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are:
a high temperature