1/ How “mild” is omicron?
When compared against Delta hospitalization and death rates, the numbers look better.
When you look at how sick people are when they seek care, the data tells a different story.
Some data from @CarbonHealth since early December 2022 thru present🧵
When compared against Delta hospitalization and death rates, the numbers look better.
When you look at how sick people are when they seek care, the data tells a different story.
Some data from @CarbonHealth since early December 2022 thru present🧵
2/ Symptomatic COVID+ patients are showing up to our clinics with more symptoms than COVID- patients presenting with flu-like symptoms:
3 or more symptoms: 58% (+) versus 43% (-)
4 or more symptoms: 38% (+) versus 25% (-)
3 or more symptoms: 58% (+) versus 43% (-)
4 or more symptoms: 38% (+) versus 25% (-)
3/ Most common COVID+ symptoms are cough (65%), sore throat (51%), headache (45%), and runny nose (45%).
COVID+ symptoms are 1.5-2.0x overweight cough and fever compared to COVID- patients
COVID+ symptoms are 1.5-2.0x overweight cough and fever compared to COVID- patients
4/ >50% of symptomatic COVID+ patients who come to our clinics have had 3 or more days of symptoms and a good number have had symptoms for 5 or more days. For some of these patients, an oral anti-viral would likely be too late to impact the course of disease.
https://twitter.com/cha_myoung/status/1476080634158219264
5/ This data is representative of patients who are choosing to come to a clinic like @CarbonHealth and not those who are going directly to a hospital. The symptomatology so far suggests that people can get quite sick with omicron despite not being hospitalized (i.e., "mild").
6/ *Data from Dec 2021 to present. Sorry for typo :)
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