Pulmonologist, PhD of Medical Sciences Alexander Palman, in an interview to Moscow 24, said that Omicron is rarely accompanied by lung damage.
In the past months, Japanese scientists have performed a series of experiments and found that the new coronavirus mutation causes a milder form of pneumonia compared with Delta. However, people belonging to risk groups are still recommended not to lose vigilance.
According to Alexander Palman, Omicron is characterized by symptoms of SARS or influenza.
“Of course, a cough can be a symptom of Omicron. But I often hear complaints of sore throats. This means, the cough can be throat-related, not a pulmonary one. Here, some pharyngitis and bronchitis are more typical than pneumonia and pneumonitis,” the doctor stated.
The “Omicron”-strain is rarely accompanied by lung damage. But in case of the damage it is not so as with previous strains.
According to the specialist, the much lighter consequences of the new strain of the disease give hope that eventually COVID-19 will become a common respiratory viral infection.
“Everything in the world is conceived rationally. None of the viruses, no matter how terrible, deadly, it is, is not out to kill us. Because if it kills all of us, it will have no environment to reproduce itself. And this is purely the law of evolution,” explains the pulmonologist.
Omicron is a classical case of evolution expediency. It has become more contagious, but less deadly. For the virus itself, this is an ideal mutation that contributes to its survival. It needs to infect more people, but the way is that the infected don’t die. I would like to believe that evolution will lead it to becoming a simple respiratory virus and that’s all.
Earlier, the doctor infectionist Evgeny Timakov explained the clinical differences observed with vaccinated and unvaccinated patients infected by Omicron. According to the expert, the people who have not had coronavirus previously and have not been vaccinated have more obvious symptoms.
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