OMICRON variant: good news as to severity; top line clinicians reporting very mild, lasting 1-2 days, no treatment needed, and even in the elderly, very 'cold-like', less than cold symptoms

we have to study the reports of omicron in reported prior immune to establish if authentic prior immune; was this legitimately a prior COVID, we need rigor in the 2 infections but xmas gift

we have not been able to document authentic 2 infections and can always look at episodes and find problems in interpretation of PCR etc.

we need rigor like 90 days apart, at least symptoms and 2 tests (PCR and antigen) etc.

but like all in life, we must never say never and always have an eye open for other explanations or correction and be open to enhanced understanding…we are learning lots but OMICRON is over and it is not a consequence based on all we know. even for elderly.

some evidence:

https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection

“Their study also showed that the Omicron infection in the lung is significantly lower than the original SARS-CoV-2, which may be an indicator of lower disease severity. This research is currently under peer review for publication.”