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Doctor Who First Raised Concern Over Omicron Variant Says Symptoms Are 'Mild'

https://www.newsweek.com/doctor-first-raised-concern-over-omicron-variant-says-symptoms-are-mild-south-africa-1653740

Symptoms included people from different ethnic backgrounds suffering from intense fatigue and a six-year-old child who had a high pulse rate, although none lost their sense of taste or smell.

According to the doctor, mostly healthy men turned up "feeling so tired," about half of whom were unvaccinated.

Dr. Coetzee told The Telegraph: "We had one very interesting case, a kid, about six years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her. But when I followed up two days later, she was so much better."

While briefing other medical associations in Africa on Saturday, Dr. Coetzee said her patients were all healthy and that she worried the new variant could hit elderly people who suffer from pre-existing conditions, such as heart disease, much worse than other groups.

She told the publication: "What we have to worry about now is that when older, unvaccinated people are infected with the new variant, and if they are not vaccinated, we are going to see many people with a severe [form of the] disease."

If Omicron turns out to be mild in unvaccinated elderly populations and becomes the dominant strain then this may not be a bad thing.