Omicron & Testing: Your Top 20 Questions Answered (with Michael Mina)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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What Are the Symptoms of a Pandemic?
Most people have either been vaccinated or infected in this country, if not in the world. And what that means is we have pre existing immunity. Our immune memory kicks in fast now. So you get posed, and then we're seeing people become symptomatic in a day or two. But the symptoms have changed. It's no longer loss of smell and g i symptoms. Now it's congestion and running nose and normal cold like symptomspeople are feeling first. That's because it's a sign that your immune system recognizes the virus real fast and tries to start battling it in within a day orTwo of getting it at first infected.
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