I have a close friend that would disagree he got omicron and still struggles to walk up stairs it left all manner of damages to his lungs clearly seen in xrays. While most will present upper respiratory symptoms some people will still progress to lung infections from sars covid II and those people if it progresses too viral pneumonia can and do have lasting damages. There is no way of knowing which group of people a person will be in until they catch the bug. Even if 99.7% survive .3% didn’t have a sniffle and head cold they got it much worse obviously. The point is having a fast acting antibody treatment on tap to help those people who cannot make antibodies themselves such as cancer patients or HIV infection. Or they didn’t make then fast enough to keep the viral replication rate below what their immune system can naturally beat on it’s own. Having the huge influx of killer antibodies to stop the replication and allow the bodies T and B cells to rid the rest of the viri.
“I have a close friend that would disagree he got omicron..”
Look, we’re on the same side. As a former cancer patient and kidney patient I fully understand. My point was that Omicron generally seems to impact the upper respiratory tract. Could be that your friend had another variant or on the other hand he is in the minority of people with Omicron.
I think we would agree that this country’s approach to COVID has been a disaster and instead of focusing on vaccines they should have put that same effort into treatments, which is finally getting attention.
The vaccines, in many cases, are a complete flop (check stats in Israel — the highest vaxed country on the planet). As an immunocompromised person, we were never told that the vaccines would not work. In fact, we were not even in the trials. We had to find out on our own many months after the roll-out. And all the time the medical community insisted that we have the shot. That’s just one example of misinformation from the government and medical community.
Kinda makes you wonder what else they have not told us about the vaccines, doesn’t it?