According to the first large-scale study about the long-term risks posed by omicron, it is less likely that the variant causes long COVID.
Almost 5% of people who catch omicron still experience fatigue, brain fog, headaches, heart problems or other health issues at least a month after getting infections.
Some researchers found the results reassuring, but others said the findings were alarming because so many people are still at risk even if they get a vaccine.
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki was not involved in the new research but he was concerned about it.
Iwasaki says that people assume that since omicron is milder, they should just get it over with.
Researchers at King's College London have tracked thousands of people who test positive for the coronaviruses to determine the risk of long COVID from different variations.
"We're trying to find out if long COVID is as common as it is in the omicron period," says Dr. Steves. The risk of going on to get long COVID is unknown.
The researchers compared the number of people who caught omicron and the number of people who caught Delta.
The researchers found that people who caught omicron were less likely to suffer from health problems a month later.
The risk of going on to get long COVID is reduced with the omicron variant. Isn't that good news?
It's good news because omicron is so infectious that it has affected a lot of people in a short period of time. The number of people who end up with long COVID would have exploded if the risk had been the same.
The findings are in line with the British government's analysis.
Steves and others agree that people shouldn't worry about long Covid because of omicron. According to the study, there is a 4% chance of getting long COVID from omicron.
A lot of people have been affected by the omicron variant because it has spread very quickly through our populations. The number of people who are set to go on to get long carbon dioxide is set to rise. It isn't a time for us to reduce services for long periods of time.
The findings show that the risk of both getting seriously ill and developing persistent symptoms is much lower for any individual person.
Why omicron might pose less of a risk was not addressed in the study. It makes sense that less omicron leads to more symptoms because it doesn't make people sick as much.
It's less affecting us in terms of severity of our immune response because it's less severe. That leads to less likelihood of long COVID.
Additional research is needed to confirm these findings.
They looked at the people who reported symptoms. They did not collect objective data about these patients or evaluate them in a clinic.
Since omicron seems to cause less severe illness, it wouldn't surprise him if it was less likely to cause long Covid.
Researchers hope the findings will correct the misconception that people don't have to worry about long carbon dioxide.
You can take off your masks in an airplane. You don't have to bevaccinated to get in a restaurant. There's still a 5% chance of severe chronic illness, even though policy decisions are going to increase the likelihood of people getting COVID. A lot of long-term disability that didn't need to exist will be created by that.
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