Thinking about intentionally trying to catch Omicron because it’s ‘nothing much more than a cold”? The experts say you are playing with dynamite.
A lot of Americans think it is a clever idea – is “all the rage,” in the US said Dr Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Centre at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with an exasperated sigh. “It’s caught on like wildfire,” agreed Dr Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
“And it’s widespread, coming from all types of people, the vaccinated and boosted and the anti-vaxxers,” he added, with a warning. “You’d be crazy to try to get infected with this. It’s like playing with dynamite.”
Significant fever, body aches, swollen lymph nodes, sore throats and heavy congestion are often reported even in milder cases of Omicron variant, Dr Murphy said, leaving people debilitated for days.
“People are talking about Omicron like it’s a bad cold. It is not a bad cold,” Dr Murphy said. “It’s a life-threatening disease.”
Written by: Ian McIntosh
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