As it happens, my wife is giving me the new Apple Watch for Christmas. Oops, not supposed to know that! It has a blood oxygen function.
Our son was out clubbing it in Nashville last week, and apparently, they have a big outbreak of Omicron there. Here’s hoping it’s that…
I don't think they really know what variant you have, unless they perform more rigorous testing, then the local pharmacy offers.
If it is Omicron, it should be mild and you can get on with your life knowing you now actually have an immunity.
LOL! One of my pre-Christmas routines as a kid was to search the house for mysterious packages. I usually found them!
Omicron is weird, almost like it was designed. 32 mutations on the spike protein and 2 on another protein and the other 22 proteins with no mutation. RNA viruses mutate in a Gaussian manner, and then it is survival of the fittest (spread and don’t kill the host). The survival pressure pushes for this type of mutation, but 32&2 seems like very long odds. It seems very odd to me that almost all the mutations are on the spike, and that is both the infection path and the thing that damages the body. Omicron does not seem to affect the lungs much and that has been the killer in the other variants.
Open that watch and have your son check his O2. If his is low in any way shape or form, get yourself and your wife infused immediately. Invermectin would not hurt either, no matter what the variant.
If it is Omicron and goes like the vast majority of cases, your bodies will recognize any future strains and you will likely (almost certainly) have natural immunity. Over 20 years later the SARS people still have immunity, and this is SARS COV2. No guarantee, but Omicron to me at least seems like Cowpox vs Smallpox... the origination of the field of immunology.
Of the small % of infected people that got very sick from Omicron, almost all were out of the hospital in 3 days or less vs 8+ days for Delta.