Omicron variant infections “are milder, which is why it is said that the virus is ‘cooling down’, is starting to adapt to humans and therefore is becoming a normal coronavirus. Thus Massimo Ciccozzi, director of the epidemiological unit at the Campus Biomedico University of Rome, spoke at Cusano Italia TV. The Omicron variant, he stressed, “is extremely contagious, has a contagiousness very close to that of measles. There is a recent study, done on cells and therefore valid, which highlights how the growth of cells in the upper respiratory tract is very impressive, contrary to what happens instead in the lungs. So it stops in the first respiratory tract, that’s why one of the symptoms is a sore throat “.

Source: Huffington Post January 04, 2022 08:48 UTC