Thanks for the information.
Personally, if I was sick, I’d like to know what I’m dealing with. I’d probably treat myself differently knowing I had Covid vs the Flu. So I’m not against testing or home tests.
I read and I think Dr. John Campbell (UK) addressed this as well, that nasal swabs are testing negative but throat swabs are testing postive with Omicron.
There is also some speculation that Omicron is triggering other illnesses or conditions to become more severe. Reports of people with Diabetes being pushed into Ketoacidosis. Not sure how valid that is. But it’s something that needs to be looked at.
Thanks for your observations — it is pretty well known that any infection can cause Diabetes to go off the chain, there is some question of other autoimmune dysfunction down stream — time will tell I suppose.
Stay Well.
“There is also some speculation that Omicron is triggering other illnesses or conditions to become more severe.”
I’ll vouch for that. My own in remission illness sprang back to life about a month ago and the trigger may well have been omicron. I had been experiencing something like this:
“The second most common is upper-abdominal or epigastric (the area right below your ribs) pain”
That’s a GI symptom of covid. I’ve never had an odd pain like that before; it went on for about a week and soon after I began to seeing familiar signs of my old pal nephrotic syndrome. And it indeed is back. Virus infections as well as vaccines are suspected triggers of this disease. You just never know what will make it angry.