Thread by @EnemyInAState

1/Crushing Chest pains: 'can't fill my lungs with air properly': Families' Xmas Dinner & Gathering urns into Omicron Hell as an entire group of 35 are Infected: with the youngest having the most severe illness: all adults fully vaccinated.

2/As Omicron takes hold in London we are hearing more and more reports of an increase in severity: especially in young people, with crushing chest pains and shortness of breath reportedly much more frequently in the young with no underlying conditions.

3/Last Saturday (11 December) 20 adults, comprising of 10 separate households went for a meal to celebrate Xmas in a swanky London restaurant: all vaccinated, and all had taken lateral flow tests beforehand: testing negative.

4/The following day another get-together was held where the families also brought their kids and grandparents at a family home reported.

5/On Monday one of the group started feeling ill, but believed it to be a hangover. However, the symptoms persisted and they tested positive for Covid: the whole family now has it as do all who attended the gatherings: the age ranges are 6 months-80 years old.

6/All children who attended and are linked to the adults: 5 children under 5 are reported to be suffering from much more severe disease than Delta: being bedbound with a range of symptoms:

7/ fever, cough, muscle aches, severe fatigue, etc. Some of the kids are also reported to have 'prickly heat' style spots on their feet.

8/The most severely affected of the group, however, so far, are the parents and those aged 30-45.

Despite being early on in the infection course they are already suffering crushing chest pain, shortness of breath, described...

9/...as if it 'feels like someone is sitting on their chest and they can’t fill lungs with air properly.'

Everybody has reported that symptoms started with a crushing headache. Fever that is leading to waking up drenched in sweat, muscle aches, coughing, a scratchy throat

10/ are all reported as well.

Loss of smell and taste is, as well as gastro symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, dizziness, and complete loss of appetite/inability to stomach food.

11/ 33% (12) of the group had been previously infected: all were reinfected and are having more severe symptoms than with other variants. South Africa has reported that reinfections are extremely high with Omicron: with those most recently infected most likely to be reinfected.

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1469708353878298632

12/ 4 members of the group are elderly: so far they report the least severe symptoms so far.

Very similar to what the SA has indicated so far:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1469670337512148995

13/Today we learned that people are progressing to the more severe disease stage earlier with Omicron than with Delta and other previous variants.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1471777316225310729

This story illustrates the picture we have been seeing from the start in South Africa: with the most severely affected being the youngest: not the oldest. Average age of admission 28 in SA for Omicron wave:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1471596633842458632

14/ However, in under 5s SA reports the opposite regarding the severe disease lag: with children who have severe disease typically coming to hospital 21-28 days after diagnosis, rather than day 8-9-10, etc.

15/ It seems then that Omicron causes more severe disease more quickly in people who are in their 20s-40s.

But the lag is greater than normal for children.

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1466910642972119041