Omicron variant of the coronavirus and symptoms, “the scenario that emerges, in a way more evident every day, is that the Omicron variant causes a clinically milder infection as the virus is less able to affect the host’s lung (for example, hamster and mouse in experimental studies, homo sapiens in clinical studies) “. This is underlined by virologist Guido Silvestri, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, in a post on Facebook linking a” very important study “, conducted by” a team All-Stars. Solid and very extensive data, which fully confirm the experimental studies from Hong Kong and Belgium (and clinical data from South Africa, the UK and various other countries) “on the lower lung severity of Omicron.
“It is important to add that the development and eventual epidemiological dominance of a more transmissible but less ‘bad’ viral variant is a classic form of adaptation – he adds – between virus and host that real virologists had predicted for some time (and for this they had been mocked by parasol virologists, but God forgives them because they do not know what they are writing) “. Silvestri specifies, however, that” this study does not definitively answer the hundred million question , that is, if at the population level the reduced severity of Covid will be sufficient to offset the negative effect of its greater transmissibility “.