Well… I didn't expect I'd be making this video. But I'm certainly not alone in this experience. I'm getting better, and I'm glad to be able to share what I've learned about Omicron in case it might help you or someone you know. Hit me up on Twitter or Instagram if you've got questions: @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart
Your symptoms are not typical of Omicron, methinks you need to stop telling lies and or making completely unsupported claims. Also keep in mind that you are promoting a medical product that _has_ killed people, did you think that the indemnities that were handed out extend to private individuals or the media? You would be wrong, get some legal advice.
You are preaching to the choir here. The people who need to hear this message are most definitely NOT watching science programming by PBS No, they are all watching communist sympathizer and world renowned virologist Tucker Carlson. We're all doomed.
I've not had any jabs and have just had omicron. Felt like a slight cold. So for me the whole thing paid off nicely 👌 didn't risk taking the Jabs and got a mild case of covid that by most accounts stops you getting the worst one's in yhe future
This is a very powerful statement from Joe. Seeing him stripped of the usual slick, glossy production and jokes, just a sick man staring into a camera, obviously uncomfortable and emotional. It says a lot by showing a personal side. Hopefully he has a full recovery and that we can all get out the other side sooner rather than later.
My Dad caught COVID in March 2020 and end up in an induced coma, on a ventilator. He already had Diverticulitis and Chron's and went into to respiratory failure twice. They didn't think he had any hope of survival but they just constantly pumped him with antibiotic after antibiotic, anti-androgens, vitamins and a cocktail of everything they could think of and he survived but... It's almost 2 years down the line and the long COVID is still very much an issue. Apparently, that can last for a lot longer than several months. It's messed with his nerves, his heart and other organ functions. His blood circulation is a mess and he has a lot of muscle and joint pain, now, as well as brain fog and headaches, etc... He isn't the same anymore. He went into hospital with some colour in his hair and beard but came out and his hair colour has just totally gone. It literally seems like COVID sucked a lot of life out of him.
I hope your dad can gain some sense of normality eventually ☹️ I have Crohn's and asthma and I'm prone to bronchial infections. Pre-vaccine it felt guaranteed that I would die if I got Covid. Now that I'm boosted I'm constantly worried about the potential impact and internal damage of long Covid+Crohn's 😨
I understand. My late friend and former neighbor had a similar path with Covid. Caught it Jan 2021. In an induced coma & vent for almost 2 months. Pumped full of drugs and steroids to keep him alive. Had kidney failure and needed a transplant. Got the transplant, but died a few weeks later. This all took 6-7 months... He was mid 30's with a wife and 4 kids.
I am not a doctor, but what I have understood is that severe covid unleashes a massive, gargantuan inflammation of many tissues everywhere in the body (brain, lungs, etc.). That is bound to wreak some havok and your dad will need time.
I apparently had omicron about a week ago and didn't know until I found out my wife was infected after ending up in the hospital for an unrelated issue. She nor I ever had any symptoms.
I contracted Covid in August of 2021. The doctor that told me the news gave me a very low chance of survival. I had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 3 months prior, obese, and unvaccinated. He told me good luck and to possibly get my affairs in order. I went home, opened my bottle of whiskey, and ordered tacos through doordash. I came down with fever, might swears, and an awful cough that seemed to go on for hours. I lost my sense of smell and taste. I didn't die. My symptoms went away after a week except my taste and smell, that took 8 months almost.
That was a very irresponsible doctor to say that. Yes, being unvaccinated, obese and diabetic would increase your risk of a severe manifestation of the disease but even then, the chance of death is still low. I don’t know if the doctor was trying to scare you into action but it is ethically wrong for a doctor to outright lie to a patient, whatever the motive.
Get better soon Joe! My daughter got it from daycare. Hubby was + but no symptoms, my daughter and I got sinus cold symptoms. Took is almost a month before the last mucus symptom went away. Hubby and I are fully vaccinated, daughter is too young. Were in Ontario Canada, premier told everyone to just stay home and isolate 5-10days. No reporting.
I was just diagnosed on Sunday for the first time. It feels surreal to have the same sickness that took my big sister in October. My symptoms are cold-like. Hers almost immediately became pneumonia. Why? She was a germaphobe. Always used hand sanitizer. Always cleaned her grocery cart. No illnesses. I rarely use sanitizer. I never clean my cart. I have diabetes, and I'm a smoker. Why did it attack her the way it did? And why not me? 😔
My whole family got Omicron and we were all vaccinated. I never got a fever and it just felt like I had a bad head cold, while my mom was intubated at the hospital for a week. Just shows how unpredictable this virus is. I am still thankful we were vaxed because my mom survived COVID and was only intubated for a couple of days and I felt better by day 5.
By any chance does your mom have underlying conditions like asthma, heart conditions, or anything else that you don't have? Underlying causes play the biggest factor
@@macethorns1168 You have no idea what you're talking about but why not show off more ignorance. Whats next you'll say 5G is causing cancer meanwhile visible light like blue wavelengths are in the 1000s of gigahertz range and that doesn't harm us 🤔🤔🤔
@@dustinjames1268 Yeah, she has some underlying health conditions and she is in her 50s, which is why she got the vaccine. COVID spread into her lungs giving her COVID pneumonia while for me stayed in my upper respiratory.
The important question, which I have not seen brought up in any coverage of the Omicron variant, is whether or not Omicron provides any specific immunity to other variants of the SARS-CoV2 virus. If so, it might be a good thing. If Omicron can outpace the others and provide a degree of immunity, it might help to isolate the more virulent strains. Edit: and then you bring up exactly that idea at 14:01. Thanks Joe. :-)
That question was brought up a few weeks ago on an episode of New York Times' The Daily podcast with one of their infections disease reporters. According to him, the data at the time seemed to suggest that a Delta infection didn't provide much protection against Omicron, but an Omicron infection did seem to provide a good deal of immunity to Delta. Of course, it was still very early and there wasn't much data, as is still the case, really. But apparently there is some hope in that regard.
Dr John Campbell (PhD in Nursing) has a fantastic channel. He is a good science communicator who is very up to date on most all recent studies and releases from medical agencies. He has done a video about the initial studies conducted in South Africa, which are suggesting that immunity towards other variations is strong. He does a daily talk and also interviews various experts.
Omicron on the surface seems like a good thing. Think like a virus. What does a virus want to do? It wants to replicate. High transmission keeps the virus going. If there is a quick and high death rate with lots of symptoms (think Ebola), then the virus can't spread rapidly as the hosts will simply die too fast to keep the transmission going, and it will flame out. Being highly infectious with milder symptoms is a win for the virus, but it's also a win for us as death rates will continue to drop even as infections continue to go up.
@@citrustaco You're not wrong, and i agree, but a virus is not a living organism, it's more like a pocket of DNA/RNA that the host replicate to make it spread. This is the difference between a bacteria (living one-cell organism) and a virus
I have a 79 year old friend who tested positive this week for Covid and is pretty sick. He has been vaccinated and boosted, but he is also on Prednisone for other health problems, which reduces immunity.. He wore N95 masks whenever he went out EXCEPT when he ate out in restaurants. Two days after he ate at a local small cafe, he became sick with fever, sore throat and severe cough. He is so frustrated that after over 2 years of being very careful, he got the virus. However, you cannot wear a mask when you eat out and that is where a lot of people are picking up the virus. May be better to order in rather than eating out right now. He is on the anti-viral meds and it seems to be helping but it is slow. Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you feel better soon!
I'm recovering from Omicron, day 6. I had not been out since before Christmas, so caught it on my one and only trip out. Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated because despite feeling really (really, really) bad, the symptoms have not been bad enough to require hospitalisation. I know, from past experience with flu, that I could have been very seriously ill. I am compromised, because of viral cardiomyopathy, which almost killed me, and has left me at risk from any virus. The vaccinations have probably saved my life. Get well soon Joe. You look, no insult meant, as bad as I still feel. You have spoken a lot of sense in this video, which is, no doubt, why many will criticise it.
Oh my! I was so glad you included that last bit as I was almost positive there would be multiple comments about how you “got the C-word to make a video”. 🤦🏻♂️
@@turtletom8383 Yeah, but that only means we have to support sci-youtuber and edu-channel even more. Like Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Hbomberguy, and so many more.
43 years old, heavy cannabis user, terrible sleep/eating habbits. Got omicron, not vaccinated at all. Symptoms lasted 18 hours, sore/stiff lower back/chills. Had a hot bath, 2 Advil Muscle and Joint, slept, got up in the morning and went to work, feeling no different than I felt any other morning.
The fact that it's a bit disappointing that we're still in a pandemic while being vaccinated, is not surprising at all. Vaccines still work, but if we keep on traveling everywhere and go up, down, up with how strict we are with rules for e.g. masks, combined with the number of people in total these days... of course it's going to drag on. Hope you get better soon!
Watch this video ( ruclips.net/video/FPPnyzvO7J4/видео.html ) it's a bit complicated but the sums up version is: COVID is a infaction of mucous membrane and not of the blood for example and mucous cells are less good in holding onto antibody's because if they where we all would have food allergies
Anti-Vaccers are the issue... They don't give two shits about the virus, nor do they wear masks. I do understand why they don't want the Vaccine but when they go all out and be an ass about it, really pisses me off. They've even attacked other people who were vaccinated.
My family and I never socially distanced. We never took the jab. We never wore masks. None of us have had Covid. I know this will anger a lot of people. You'd much rather hear that we all got sick and died. Sorry to disappoint you guys.
No of course not! I think we’re all glad you’re fine. It’s just risky, and we hope you continue to stay safe. Just be careful around older/unhealthy people.
I'm vaxxed and boosted but yea same thing. Always treated this as a joke never got COVID. I think I will get it eventually and honestly everyday that goes by without COVID is more surprising
i had omicron just the other week, and it was the first case of covid i've had. it went by super quickly for me and i feel like i got off extremely easy. there was about two days of buildup- sore throat and sinuses, followed by two days or so of being COMPLETELY incoherent. i couldn't think, and i slept close to 18hrs/day. i never had a fever, but i did have some feverish dreams and all of my joints ached really badly. moving around at all was a struggle. but then it just kind of? went away? i felt better very suddenly with the only leftover evidence being a slight roughness to my throat
Interesting differences and similarities. Had it two weeks ago. Two days of fever, but not sore throat. Day three brought mild sinus issue and a tickle that made me occasionally cough. I went to the doctor to confirm it wasn’t COVID, and then they said I was positive.
I have it right now. Mild symptoms. Evaded it for two years so eventually it was going to happen 🙂 I wish everyone - vaxxed and unvaxxed - a speedy recovery! ❤️
Get well soon, Joe. Got infected at the start of the year. The guilt of bringing home the infection to my family is terrible. Just glad Omicron did not bring severe health issues with it.
I had the same flu before COVID hit in 2019 felt like a 3 day hang over but I've had worse sickness and got though it when I was a child . I was tort different and brought up to never giver up you can say all you want .better.to burn out then to fade away! This guy is a goose or sheep
I feel you, I got it last week. I had muscle aches and soarness; imagine waking up a day after doing a massive work out... that's how it feels. But since I got my first two shots, it wasn't too bad . Get well soon!
I have covid now with the exact same symptoms that you describe. I'm full vaccinated and boosted. it's what brought me here and I would just like to thank you for putting some sensible and intelligent perspective on this entire pandemic situation.
@@mastersanwan Thanks Elliot, four days on from initial symptoms and testing positive and I'm feeling a bit better. Very glad I had all the shots. Good luck.
My boyfriend and I had it a couple weeks ago - he had fever, shortness of breath and mild allergy symptoms meanwhile allergy symptoms were all I had. I was stuffed up or snotty for a good week or so, and then when that finally went away it took my sense of smell with it. Its just now finally coming back to its full strength. We are both vaccinated but not yet boosted, but we are planning to go get our boosters soon. If you catch this after making it this far...don't beat yourself up. Its all over the place and even the most cautious of us are getting it (I'm in that group). Tylenol, sudafed and all the usual stuff for taking care of a cold/flu will be your best way of getting through it, just take care of yourself the best you can while you're sick.
I got sick for the first time in 14 years but tested negative for COVID, retested and was still negative (and COVID false positives are vastly more common than false negatives in the first place). However, I was also by far the sickest I've ever been, with bad pneumonia for 9 days, and I could barely breathe and completely lost my senses of smell and taste (which scared me that it was COVID at first, but I looked into the timeframe for symptoms emerging and mine was completely wrong for COVID, and I was also having violent sneezing fits for the first 2 days before the infection spread to my bronchial passages and lungs, which are not a COVID symptom). In fact, from specific details of my symptoms (mucous colour, timeframe and sequence of symptoms, matching to the full symptom list, resistance to antibiotics, etc), I deduced it was a particularly bad... common cold. Kind of ironic, but I've been a lot more careful about making sure I get enough vitamin C since then. Because of the lack of a good grocery store where I was living most of my vitamin C was coming from margaritas, and citrus isn't actually a great source of C to begin with. Anyway, all that is to point out that COVID-19 is not the only virus that can affect someone with wildly different severities. Probably the point that screwed me over was that my cold was able to quickly migrate to my bronchial tubes where my immune system was weaker in general, which was probably because it entered my body not through microscopic particulate (which is USUALLY stopped by the mucous in your nose), but on a foreign body (somebody came into the café where I worked covered in cat hair, and I am allergic to cats, so for the first day I thought the sneezing was entirely due to exposure to the cat hair; however I'm pretty sure the virus I contracted was on the cat hair, which acted as a vessel to shunt it past my snot and into my throat). So I guess the real moral of the story is cat people are evil.
@@agustin268 I read 10 days as per CDC guidelines, and that's mainly to make sure you're out of quarantine. It'll still be past a couple weeks by the time we go, we haven't scheduled yet. (Its on the To-Do list though.)
Thank you for mentioning long COVID. It often doesn’t seem to be considered when looking at the risks of the COVID spread but it’s still devastating for people and society
@TheLoneJourney not the side effects. Many people are still suffering symptoms months and even years after their initial covid infection. For some it’s so bad they aren’t able to work anymore. It’s not going to affect everyone but it’s still a relatively large proportion of people who suffer from it
8:47 This is especially important for people to listen to. I just lost a friend of mine, very healthy, in his 20s, vaccinated but not boosted (but planning on getting one), basically a really good example of someone who would be in the higher chance of surviving if they ever got covid. He got it, did everything right in terms of getting treatment, _and died from a heart attack not long after he was confirmed positive._ It doesn't matter if your age group or health makes you in the "98% likely to not die" category. SOMEONE will be the 2%. One out of every 50 healthy people are in that 2%.
I'm so sorry about your friend!! I agree that people definitely need to be more aware of things like this. Everyone just assumes that if you're young and healthy, you'll be safe. But there are young and healthy people who have died from COVID, or become hospitalized and survived. People don't understand that just because something is UNLIKELY to happen doesn't mean it WON'T happen!
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Yeah, sorry about that, admittedly I was half-writing that in anger because of how many people were claiming that my friend was somehow secretly sick or died of something else rather than just admitting he got covid and died from that.
Well, I am in the same case than you. Vaccinated, double boosted, with Omicron which catched me. I will never know how I would have turned without the vaccine, but I only endure the equivalent of a big cold, or a small flu. I hope you will recover as fast as me.
I'm guessing I had omicron, I lost my symptoms in 2 - 3 days and only had a fever and headache, I haven't been vaccinated or boosted so thank God I happened to be lucky
@@1polarity Nope. Your case is statistically the norm. Omicron is weak, and isnt causing the same level of people to be hospitalized as Delta or Alpha.
I can offer one piece of advice to help with one symptom, the brain fog. Taking Vitamin B helped lessen that part of it, though didn’t have too many other symptoms except loss of taste/smell and getting tired very easily. Hope all goes well for ya Joe and anyone else dealing with it.
i got omicron too, started with a slight tickle in my throat for a couple days, then sore , then super fatigued and headache where i couldn’t go to work and got tested. sore throat got pretty bad for a couple days, headache also lasted until day 6…7.. day 8 had intense sweat spells..would come and go until day 10 .. 11-15 not much left minor cough here and there
I had night sweats for the first couple days, and then a bugging cough & runny nose for a few days after. By day 7 I was negative and clear but it took just over 2 weeks to get my full sense of smell and full sense of taste back.
Hi r7blue! Thanks for sharing your symptoms. I'm not sure I had omicron but the testing people only said I had the virus. I lost 80% (about) of my muscle strength and fell. If you have time I made my post yesterday and it's 5-15-22. Do you know anyone who had the virus and lost muscle strength for 2 days. It was my whole body too, and bladder control, very strange.
Same! The dry dry throat that didn’t even make me think it was anything until the next day. Even then… it was tolerable…. Just when I thought I was out of the woods for symptoms.. day three, major sinus congestion and coughing started.
The questions I have are how can you determine which variant you have? Also why aren’t we given that information when we get tested and receive a positive test?
For the week ending Jan 15th, the CDC estimated that in the USA, 99.5% of cases are Omicron. Obviously there is no certainty, but considering that was barely over 1 month after the first case of Omicron in the USA, it's safe to say that it's probably even higher now. 1 month from 0% to 99.5% in most states means it is absolutely dominant.
@MattTechStudio They are looking for specific variants. That's irrelevant for just tracking purposes and it also takes longer and costs more. A few samples are tested for variants to determine the current %'s of each variant but that is not correlated back to the person.
Hello people. I'm having this too. Started by a little headache on saturday, sneezing on sunday, sore throat and runny nose on monday, and tested positive on wednesday and been coughing till now. I had a fever on wednesday night but the fever's gone in the morning. I feel better now but I'm still coughing now and then. I hope I'll get better next week... and wishing you guys who are having omicron to get well soon too !
Tested positive yesterday myself! First time having COVID and first time being sick since December 2019. So far I’m just a little phlegmy and have a lump in my throat. I hope it doesn’t get worse! I’m also vaccinated.
I've got omicron too. I'm always taked all precautions and I'm vaccinated. In I'm week to respiratory diseases, I'm had to get to emergency on a Wheelchair, but still get sent home afterwards and of course, my entire family got it too. I've had some pretty bad symptoms as well. Not gonna lie, throw my social life away and basically lost friendships and all that by isolating during all this time[ I meant since early 2020, and despite that still getting Covid]], and I'm pretty upset about still get it, but life is a b****, and I know how vaccines work (I'm always getting respiratory disease after all, even if always vaccinated.
@@sandyshore8787 Yes, you're right. Apologies for the confusion, I'm isolating myself since the beginning. And yes, I can't help but feel upset about getting covid, it's doesn't seem fair, but as a person who always get reinfected with respiratory diseases I understand that's how it works.
@@Nilguiri Well I meant Isolating in the long term, but you're not wrong... I'm just upset upon the realization that most of us "who did the right thing" are now just alone and sick, relationships aren't eternal and these things happens all the time, may we all find better companies from now on.
Thank You for making this video. If thinking individuals like yourself can get this crap then the rest of us don't really have a chance of avoiding it. The best we can hope for is to limit the 'landslide impact' on our health care system from wiping out the limited hospital space we normally have.
Sitting here watching because it's all I can manage because I also have covid and everything you described.... I feel ya, man. And I have 3 of the conditions that make me higher risk and got new my vaccine earlier... yeah... Hope you're feeling better soon!
I'm 2 weeks out from catching omicron. I masked, triple vaxxed, stay at home unless I have to leave and I still got it when I went grocery shopping (and clearly saw people not masking) I'M SO MAD!!! I went 2 YEARS not catching this thing! Goes to show how contagious it is! Thanks again for being so relatable.
I‘m super late to reply to you but since I’m also at home now with stupid omicron I watched the video and read your comment now. We did what we could! I’m super bummed too, but honestly: we didn’t get the first strand, we didn’t get deadly delta and now we simply almost had nowhere else to go and ended up with omicron from the supermarket. If I had to pick a strand up until this point, I’d pick omicron. Yay us!
@@tehabnorm How so? I got proven right when I caught covid just trying to go out to buy groceries (PCR test to prove it and still coughing 3 months later) how about showing some empathy instead?
I told my friend that I feel like I'm "circling the drain" as far as this virus goes. I've been ridiculously careful. Probably more so than most given my line of work (medically intensive homecare RN). But, I'm starting to feel like getting this isn't an "if" but a "when."
If your vaccinated, when you catch Covid, there's reason to believe you will be protected from sever disease. We may face several more years of rescuing illness, but it will be just another bad cold. 👍
Seriously. Why fear it? You’ll have actual immunity when it’s over, and very few people die from it. It probably is inevitable. We botched this thing up so badly, it’s endemic. The people that wanted to place all bets on a vaccine should reflect. We used an experimental medicine to make the first ever vaccine of its kind, and tried to employ it against a virus. When did we ever vaccinate a virus into submission before? Remind me again? The flu? No, that’s not it. That turned out the same way as Covid. Smallpox? Well, actually, we have no way to know if vaccination was the reason that virus is one of only two considered eradicated. Even considering it eradicated is somewhat controversial. But there’s no way to quantify that as a vaccine success. And how many viruses have been eliminated from mRNA vaccines? None. In fact, nothing ever has been. If this virus were truly important to people, they’d be asking the right questions.
Don't be scared. I survived with no V and so did my mum who is 82. I won't say it's that mild mild, my mum had a hard time but still did not go to hospital. It felt like flu or similar to heat stroke to me ( except I was not dizzy, no bad chest symptoms nor heart palpitations for me). No long covid that I see for me. I think I feel better now than before. Not sure what that's about, like my immune system reset. My sleep cycle and energy was bad 2 weeks before I came down with this and I had lapsed in taking all my vitamins till omicron hit me two weeks prior. I do feel once I started taking them again it gave me some protection. Black seed oil, NAC, Vit D3 with K2, zinc, vit C, magnesium. I'm greatful omicron was the first and only strain I got up to now and I feel good now, took about 14 days to be completely symptom free especially from slight mild cough near the end, no cough now. I'm 48 , have sleep issues, newly diagnosed mild hashimotos. Happy to be alive as so many were not so lucky. Just look after your health and keep your mental state up. A lot of the struggle is to not be fearful. I did not try to get rid of my fever all that time. Only took Panadol for start of day, if I needed to get up to do things and before sleep ( lasted 3 nights) as fever, if not too high, is your bodies antibodies doing it's work to fight the virus.
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, and Stay Strong because you really make me & everyone laugh during this tough times. I really loving and liking this man because how he explains this and that thing without hesitations.
Yeah, but that only means we have to support sci-youtuber and edu-channel even more. Like Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Hbomberguy, and so many more.
Nature has a way of balancing herself, and she honestly does what she pleases. We can pretend as if we can control everything, but in the end it’s a false sense of security.
Hope you're keeping well mate! Just coming out of isolation today after fighting it for a week, I was lucky to escape with pretty mild symptoms. This Omicron surge is weird, especially as an Aussie where cases had been relatively stable until it arrived a few weeks back.
Same here in Puerto Rico. Comparing to the US states we had very little infections and deaths. Omicron changed everything. Most of the deaths here happened in the last few weeks. It surpassed the 2020 and 2021 deaths combined. Crazy.
Haha I'm glad to see I'm not the only one using the term "Covid Classic" to describe the original strain. In any event, I hope you get better soon, Joe. Take care of yourself.
Thank you so much for sharing. It has been 3 days since i got a severe sore throat - to the point i could not swallow, and with me that came on came on within 1 hour. Looking back i did have the runs twice on Friday morning. Fevers and chills yesterday and today. Like you, i am triple vaxed, and like you, I'm wondering what the heck? I'd hate to imagine how much worse my symptoms would be if i wasn't. I'm healthy, fit, and 50 years of age. i rarely get sick. I actually cant remember the last time - And yet here i am. I came across your video not looking for a cure, but looking for some hope. i need to know that my body will be done with in a few more days. I also wanted to hear from somebody who was infected currently, not 2 years ago. Thanks again.
I started having symptoms on Tuesday. It’s Saturday and I am just starting to feel a little better. Not 100%. My dr told me it could take 7-10 days to recover. My medication has been Sudafed, prednisone, Afrin and cough syrup. Seems to be alleviating the symptoms.
It was 12 days ago that I posted my original post ..... And I am now posting again but this time from a hospital bed. Turns out I have a bacterial virus that may or may not have started out as a viral bacteria. It attached to my tonsils and then my jugular. My neck swelled up double on one side. I'm on antibiotics etc. ... I wasted 4 days in isolation at home assuming and treating it as if it was the new strian of COVID. ... I've come to realise the hardway how blindsided we've all become to other diseases since COVID was introduced to us. Had I gone to the hospital at the beginning I would have been written off as COVID and sent home to isolate.
@@lindac7968 I never tested positive for covid either from home or hospital tests. The doctors do not think it was covid related, but from my understanding, they still didn't rule out that it may have started as a viral infection. I initially thought it was the new strain of covid and self isolated for 5 days, all the while this bacterial virus was growing on my tonsils and then went to my jugular vein in my throat, where my body created a blood clot to try containing the virus. The bacteria entered my blood stream, and is still in my blood while i am on antibiotics etc, ... the long and short of it is I was diagnosed with something called Lemierre's Syndrome, a very old and rare disease. I say old because it was historically first documented by Dr. Lemierre in the 1930s before penicillin, where 18 of 20 patients died within 2 weeks, and rare because these days from stats i found, 1/million get it annually. Its often referred to as the 'forgotten disease' but lately has been on the rise. One doctor that was treating me said in his thirty year career he has only come across 2 cases and i was the 2nd, oddly enough the other was only 3 months ago. From my understanding it doesn't just have to start from any fluid/food etc contracted threw your mouth, it can start from bacteria in a cut anywhere on your body. It gets into your blood stream and travels. Your body creates blood clot around the bacteria and it swells up - anywhere in your body. It can go into your liver, heart, lungs, and brain, which then have a whole slew of other complications and obviously a higher chance of mortality. The doctors caught it in time before it did any of that type of damage to me, and it is now under control. I was released from the hospital after 10 days, and am just starting my IV outpatient program tonight, with a few pills and antibiotics etc for next 6 weeks. I'm one of the lucky ones. I've been hearing stories of people who have had to be medically put in to a coma to drain there skulls, lungs collapsing because of fluid build up etc. Its a disease that is often over looked initially as strep throat, or tonsillitis, until its not, and then theee is a very short window to striatal it under control before it become fatal. Very little public knowledge about it, as i guess many other diseases. Unfortunately it seems Covid has taken the spot light lately and so much else is overlooked.
Hope you feel better soon! I got Covid earlier this month, luckily I only had a headache, a bit of the sniffles and was really tired for a few days. I slept 17 hours one day lol It sucked being sick, but I'm glad I'm double vaccinated so my immune system could deal with the virus better.
I didnt get the vax. But I did get covid and by the 2nd day of anguish and not able to sleep. I cried out to my Father in heaven. He put a song in my heart so I played it on my cell and fell asleep instantly woke up with no more pain. The remaining 8 days of isolation I just chilled read bible and spent time with my Heavenly Father😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌☝️☝️☝️❤
Cancer patient on chemo. Day ten of covid. Basically a mild cold and almost gone. My 76 year old mom, who has asthma, is two weeks in and getting better the last two days. Omicron may be highly contagious, but not as deadly.
Thank you so much for making this vid. I'm vaxxed, boosted and haven't hugged or seen the lower part of my face for 2 years. So, it pissed me off and I was so confused when I got it last week. Lucky for me it was like a 24 HR flu then back to full. Problem is I've been symptom free for 2 weeks and I'm still testing positive. FML. Well feel better soon
Just leave isolation you are fine. The tests can show positive for THREE MONTHS because they are detecting left over viral RNA. Oh and BTW stop hiding in your house and masking, clearly it didn't work so why continue it?
The exact same thing happened to me. I am double vaccinated with a booster. My wife and I took a cruise to the Caribbean in March and the protocols for boarding were very strict. Not only did you have to show proof of vaccinations, but you were required to have proof of a negative PCR test within 48 hours of boarding. I got COVID anyway, probably when we took an excursion in one of the ports of call.
Same. I caught mine in Spain on the very last day, probably. One day after flying back after we had to submit the required PCR test. Mine came back positive. I had no symptoms, maybe a very slight tickly throat for half a day, otherwise I never felt better. My hubby never caught this highly contagious virus from me.
You probably caught it because everybody on that ship had just gone to where all the Covid positive people go: the testing center. It’s a brilliant policy. I just got back from a cruise with the same requirements and have Covid now.
Lol, if you took multiple injections and still caught the disease, you were never “vaccinated.” I have the measles vaccination - know what I didn’t get? Measles. I also have the polio vaccine. Know what I didn’t get? Polio. Those are REAL vaccines.
@@alexbrocklebank8821 Measles and Polio do not mutate in the same way as SARS-Cov-2. People who are vaccinated against Measles and or Polio etc. will usually have life long immunity. Why do you think the flu vaccine is offered yearly but a measles vaccine is only given in two doses and Polio in four along with other vaccines in childhood. Have a think about what you just wrote 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I am currently lying down sick in bed and hope I get better 😞 my sister caught the disease from work and then got sick which led to my family getting sick. Even though we’ve been vaccinated we still got pretty sick. I feel like crap and I’ve never been sick like this before. My bladder and kidney hurts. My entire body aches especially my lower back. It first starter with waking up with a dry throat and mouth for a couple days and then eventually developed a horrible headache which felt like a migraine with aura and eventually a cough. I’ve never felt so sick in my life and it feels worse than a cold or flu.
Absolutely brilliant and thank you. I must say though that "endemic" doesn't really say at what level the infection operates at. If covid becomes endemic but is as common as regular influenza then it will still be quite impactful. Unfortunately the jury is still out as to whether covid subsides and turns into an occasional nuisance, or whether there is still another, more pathogenic wave to come. We don't know. One thing we do need more public education on is the significance of R(effective) and what it means for our ongoing behaviour and public health response. Yes, covid might become an occasional and sporadic thing, but that means bring R(eff) need to remain under 1.0 consistently and that probably will mean doing more than vaccinations. We need to educate people more on how to recognise a well ventilated space and we need to educate the people who are responsible for large indoor spaces on the need to engineer ventilation and air purification. I think we also need to accept, at least until we come up with even more potent tools, like anti-viral prophylaxis, that high quality masks will have to be worn indoors. And yes, there's still the possibility that technology will give us the edge and we can eradicate it entirely. Its not the technology that limits us, its collective behaviour.
Why is it that when people talk about collective behavior they never mention getting your vitamin D level checked or checking your waist / hip ratio or knowing your A1C? Everyone wants government to protect them or to police the behaviors of others.
All the unvaccinated that I know had mild symptoms such as fatigue and headache for a few days. Average Covid age of deaths in Australia = 83.7 according to the bureau of statistics. Each person has to do their own risk assessment and vitamin D status appears to be very important in this evaluation.
Can confirm. I have 20 unvaccinated friends including myself. All doing perfectly fine, the ones that have got it, couple days headache, sore throat then back to normal
I'm not vaxxed buy hubby his and he was way sicker. This is our second go around we also had the og stain and same thing hubby was way sicker and that was before a vax came out.
I was unvaccinated and had a stuffy nose for two days but my son was forced to get vaccinated to keep his job and he still hasn't gotten better since getting covid 5 weeks ago. he has a constant cough. tell me again how the vaccination is beneficial besides exposing you to side effects.
@Be Intelligent My reasoning is very rational and can be backed up by truth and fact unlike the government lies and fallacies that sheep like yourself choose to believe, eg if you get vaccinated you cant get covid or transmit it or die.
I have it right now I’m in so much pain, my head has so much pressure in it I can’t even stand up ☹️ I keep vomiting and can’t eat much at all. I had the vaccines and the booster, I couldn’t imagine this being any worse.
Here I am almost a week without any symptons, WITH two vaccine doses, still with a positive antigen test. It's scary to think that if I went out of isolation I could still be spreading this disease.
Isolating at this point is stupid. For every one person like you who tested with no symptoms there are probably 5-10 walking around unknowingly spreading it. We aren't putting Pandora back in her box, this virus is now endemic like influenza and did you quarantine for that? No
Yeah, about same. Had a little sore throat for a couple of days, some coughing... that's about it. Maybe had a fever, didn't last more than an afternoon if I did.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv wait for everyone to be vaccinated, then we probably stop with it. If we quarantine for every new strain the world will live under lockdown forever, it is known, mate.
Scary to come to the realization that a vaxxed person is more dangerous to an unvaxxed person simply because an unvaxxed will typically keep using precautions to protect against virus where a vaxxed person has been lead to believe that they are safe, protected from the 🦠 when indeed they aren’t. They can have it and not know it and share it with others. The gift nobody wants. Yes, it is scary and it isn’t going anywhere it is here to stay.
I have been clear of Covid for 2 years since the pandemic but I just came into contact with someone who has Covid. I'm vaccinated and boosted but I caught Covid , haven't tested yet, it hasn't been 5 days. But I have a light cough and and achy body. I've been so so tired, just slept through the first 3 days of infection. I'm 21 years old and have just been staying in and masked up. It just feels like a regular cold.
I caught COVID in August ... Has 3 jabs done etc. Been completely knocked off my feet. Had approx 14 symptoms. Now into long COVID. Pushing it to the limits to try to get better, been on Whey protein powder to possibly help boost me up. I am very tired, short of breath, muscles weakness and my leg muscles hurt. To say it sucks is an understatement, it sucks the life out of you. I had a mild case, no need for oxygen or organs shutting down.
drink lemon juice with lime and ginger and honey, put the whole fruit cut up,, leave peels on but i peel the ginger root ,,,into boiled water and seal jar ,,steep, you can drink hot but its stronger after a couple of days. eat pickled beets. ginseng tea.
We finally caught Covid in April. I started to have symptoms on Good Friday. My friend/accountant and his girlfriend came over to deliver completed tax returns that were due on the next Monday, April 17. All I had was a minor sore throat. Neither of them got it. My son came over on Easter Sunday. I tested myself and my husband that Tuesday. I was positive, he wasn't. He'd been coughing, which usually means he's sick. I had no fever, stuffy nose, a few coughs, nothing major. If he wasn't coughing, I might not have tested us. I've had colds that were a lot worse. Same with him. He and my son didn't show positive until 2 days later. It seemed to have a 4 day incubation time, which meant I got exposed at my choir practice on the Tuesday before Good Friday. Apparently, once I had noticeable symptoms (still very mild) I was pretty infectious. That was definitely by Easter Sunday. My son was positive 4 days later. You have to definitely show symptoms for the home test to show positive. My husband and I both got monoclonal antibody treatment. We had all been vaccinated and boosted. The shots kept us from getting severely ill. We were wise to take them. Omicron is very contagious. Social distancing, etc. Not enough. Our daughter and her husband got it around the same time from going to a gaming convention. They were vaccinated too. It was definitely making the rounds here in NE. Please get vaccinated. I don't want to think about what might have happened to us if we hadn't.
I am 55 years old unvaxed in Australia, we all knew that everyone was going to get it . I got Omicron five days of the cold / flu, two days of feeling average the rest was easy, my husband was triple vaxed and he had same symptoms and duration as me.
I use the home test kit and it was positive . Test two times and my whole family is positive . my symptoms start off with headache and sore throat and then fever come and go and chills . I only did it for one day . Later the at night I took two Tylenol and everything went away. Except for my coughing is still there. All my kids have fever for a couples day. The scary part is that my son nose bleed and cough out alittle bit of blood. My mother in law was positive a couples day before . So I boil lemon grass and ginger . Boil and drink that every day. Get your vitamin c also and no process food . I am not vaccinated.my mother in law was vaccinated and and boosted but she was in bed for few days.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this honest, intelligent, informative video. Shared to social media! Your discussion was scientific, accurate, informative, and wonderfully personal.
Ive gotten three shots and I got omicron 4 months after my last booster and its been trippy. Not hospitalized but I am worried it will get worse. Right now my throat hurts like hell, im spitting up flem and I got chills and ive been tired. It sucks. I cant imagine how hard it would have been if I wasnt vaccinated
Hi, I took a car ride to go to a graduation last Sunday, on Tuesday called in sick. The driver also got sick Tues morning. He lives in another town. Symptoms for me 102f fever,. Really bad bronchial cough,. Fatigue, joint aches. Surprised at the possibility of a 2 day incubation period. Fever lower today, Thursday.
Exactly the same here, I woke up with an annoying head ache, a bit of body ache, slight tiredness, not bad enough to stay in bed. That was the first day. Today is day 3 and I feel fine. My partner has also covid. He's sick as a dog, in bed sweating, coughing, shivering, runny nose etc...He's vaccinated, I am not. I'm looking after him. Enough said.
Had a scratchy throat, then that night I woke up 2am like a train hit me or something. Aches, pains, headache, sore throat, palpitations. Went back to sleep and was fine in the morning, just tired and sore throat. Did multiple saliva tests all false negatives. So I thought I was ok, going places. Tried the nose test, all positive... All I have now is a sore throat and cough on day 3.
I prefer to let my body fight things naturally.. like it has for thousands of years from generation to generation.. I hardly take advil or anything because I think it is good for the body to endure things from time to time.. Like wind blowing on trees and plants making their roots stronger, making them more durable in the future.. If you look at isolated tribes.. for thousands of years they have been segregated from society and the diversity of bacteria that has been normalized into our systems if introduced into their communities now, would have devastating effects. I like the wind, leave me alone.
It's been 7 days for me with Covid 19. I had 6 jabs (vaccinations) and after being in the ER yesterday, lm on 5 medications to help with the ugly symptoms. Definitely the medicine helped at least 85%.
I’d like to see a study on whether long COVID produces a more robust immune response. I got long COVID last march, never got vaccinated, but haven’t caught it again. Friends who got COVID at the same time, had it for short term, then got vaxxed, have all had at least 1 more case of it. I’ve been around them while they had symptomatic omicron and never got it mysef
Oh by the way, I’m proud to say that I skipped the shot and hardly ever got a symptom except a night of soar throat and nausea for a couple of days from « beta2h3! » (whatever)! Now I’m immune with a stronger system….that makes me confident to face future viruses….just wanted people to be informed
I was thinking the same. How revealing of his character it is that he's still willing to go to the effort of making videos for us fans, ultimately for the sake of spreading knowledge, which I personally respect the hell out of anyone who spreads knowledge. So long as it's scientifically accurate knowledge and not astrology or something. So for him to still to pursue his obvious passion for learning and teaching despite how crumby he probably feels shows some real dedication. Not just to us, but to science as well. What more can I say? The man's a legend. Even though I already have, here's wishing him a fast and uneventful recovery!
My fiancee had a vicious sore throat. I ended up in the ER with blue fingers, struggling to breathe. Same exact strain, 1 week apart. You can't assume you'll know how it'll affect your body ahead of time.
I’m unvaccinated but still stressed about covid my problem is I’m scared of the vaccine but I’m scared of covid as well I’m really hoping my experience will be like yours. Wish me luck!
Hey get well soon! I’m from Cape Town, South Africa, and when it hit my neighbourhood it was like wildfire, it swept through me, and a good majority of my extended family got it. Good news though, everyone recovered, including my 91 yr gramps! I’m sure you’ll beat it soon :D Ps. That goes out to you if you’re dealing with it now, get well soon, get lots of rest and binge a show!
Before Omicron 95% of the UK population had antibodies. Now 97.5% have antibodies. That means that only 2.5% had no protection whatsoever. Omicron is only less severe in that 95% of the population. What about the 2.5% who had no protection? I bet that in them, Omicron is significantly more severe than Delta. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see the hospitalization numbers that we’re seeing.
I had covid at the start of the month. Everything Joe's going through is familiar, but I'm most concerned by the "Covid brain," which Joe described as the inability to focus on anything for more than 2.7 seconds. I've found that the difficulty concentrating has lingered for a couple weeks even after the rest of my symptoms have cleared. It's annoying, and a little worrying. It's definitely made me a little less productive.
@@Rin-qj7zt and this is one of the things that worries me the most about Covid- wife and I already have foggy brains from ADHD, don't need it to be made worst.
I used to brag that I never caught the flu or a cold. Then I got Covid. Because my body had never experienced being ill it went into a high level of inflammation. This made me so much more ill than I ever could have expected. Essentially my doctor told me that because I was 'so' healthy that is why I got so sick. I was so sure that I could breeze through this illness and I've never been more wrong. I am vaccinated.
Welcome to the club Joe. Me and my mom had covid during the holidays and let me tell you when they say that it's different for everyone they mean it. While I was dealing with a mild case of the dang vrius while my mom had a somewhat a servier case and got the aintbiocts injections. I am just greatfull that it didn't ruin the holidays. Oh btw the dog wouldn't leave us out of her sight, well mostly my mom.
Just as I was watching your video my rapid test showed positive and I started panicking a little, cuz I also have been vaccinated 3 times and was like you "disappointed" after 2 whole years. But your words were like a real-time therapy session, you helped me get grounded. Thanks so much for all your great videos always!
Before Omicron 95% of the UK population had antibodies. Now 97.5% have antibodies. That means that only 2.5% had no protection whatsoever. Omicron is only less severe in that 95% of the population. What about the 2.5% who had no protection? I bet that in them, Omicron is significantly more severe than Delta. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see the hospitalization numbers that we’re seeing.
omicron is just really contagious in comparison to delta, so it makes sense. don't worry too much about it, the fact that you got it now instead of 2 yrs ago means you did a good job. speedy recovery!
I got it a week and a half ago. Wasn’t a big deal for me. Just fever, tiredness and fatigue. No nausea, no sore throat or headache/brain fog. Lasted two days.
Thank You. Hope you are strong and healthy. You've helped me so much. I tested positive last Sunday, June 5, 2022. Everything you've said I've had the exact same thing. I thought I was invincible. Everyone around me was falling to omicron. I, however remained strong and virus free. Then I was hit. The might oak has fallen! I'm still testing positive. And still have that cold type feeling in my head. Hoping to test negative tomorrow.
I work as a healthcare professional. I had two co-workers that were tested positive for covid and were out for at least four days until they were RTW (day 5). Stay optimistic. You got this.
This is one of the best videos on the topic I've seen. You have a fair and balance view and approach to the topic, and it really feels like a video that would help people who are against vaccination understand and maybe even come around to changing their minds. Hope you feel better soon!
I discovered this channel when I was ten years old and fell in love with science because of it. And I've always looked to this channel to inspire me to work to get smarter. And now I have gotten omicron and That's really comforting to know. Science always has our back
I can't believe a person so smart as him can make this video saying "You don't know how your body will react to the covid-19 infection" and using that argument to encourage vaccination. Reality check: you don't know how your body will react to the vaccine, and if you pull the short straw and end up with those rare, but life-debilitating side effects, then congrats. In omicron period, the risk-benefit analysis changed. Vaccine side-effects are to risky for the lesser to none protection against omicron variants. If you are in a high risk group maybe it makes sense, but if you are a normal healthy individual, you gotta think about it in the present time. Be smart folks.
As a 19 y/o unvaccinated guy who has got covid twice, one recently (which might be omicron), I can tell that the new variant is way weaker than the previous one. However it caused a severe headache and a fever of 101, it only lasted one day and one night. But when I was infected earlier the fever was more severe and it lasted for 3 to 4 days. P. S. I'm unvaccinated because in my country, there aren't enough vaccines but now it is slowly being adequate. I really envy people of developed countries who get the vaccines earliest and also the one which is most effective. And I wonder why some privileged people still refuse to be vaccinated. Edit: I got the vaccine.
It might have been less severe because you had partial immunity thanks to the first infection. It really is impossible to draw conclusions from just one case. Take care, and I do hope everyone gets access to vaccination quickly. That was one of the blunders when the vaccine became available - not spreading it fairly. And it came back to bite us with Omicron...
Well there's defenintely a lot of controversial information out there. I think for most people that's a big reason why they aren't getting vaccinated (They just don't know who to trust). Also there is ton of stories about very nasty side-effects. Now I don't want to discourage anyone from getting the vaccine, just trying to give a little insight on why some people chose not to be vaccinated. I am however sorry to hear that you are unable to get a vaccine while you do want one❤️
@@nerenax2132 The negative side effects are usually because the needle hasn't been aspirated to make sure they are only injecting into the muscle and not directly into a blood vessel. They've also been exaggerated by those with an agenda, when in reality, there's far more risk in getting the disease than the vaccination, so it's about probabilities. Anti-vaxxers are idiots, because we've been using vaccinations since Dr. Edward Jenner discovered this medical practice 200 years ago. Vaccinations have saved millions of people from a plethora of diseases. So get vaxxed!
I can't understand why people wouldn't trust a doctor over some doubts spreaded in onlineforums and get vaccinated either. But i would give up my booster in a heartbeat if i'd know that it would be used to vaccinate others who need it more around the world. I am not certain, therefore i'll still get it to at least lower the numbers around here, but i think this is a huge injustice we need to tackle together in the future, so that we will all be better off for future pandemics, especially as we will only get better at that together. I am quite certain what Pelikan said about partial immunity will have affected your less symptomatic infection this time as B- and T-Cell-immunity is less affected by changes on the spikeprotein, but probably also the variant is less symptomatic. For now i'd like to thank you that you shared your experiance with omikron and your position on the vaccinationdebate. I hope there'll be more vaccines available asap.
And on a side note: read _Immune_ by Philipp Dettmer. It's the best book ever, whether you've studied biochemistry and immunology at university level, or are "only" interested in science in general. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Well… I didn't expect I'd be making this video. But I'm certainly not alone in this experience. I'm getting better, and I'm glad to be able to share what I've learned about Omicron in case it might help you or someone you know.
Hit me up on Twitter or Instagram if you've got questions: @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart
Just got covid aswell, sitting in isolation, so this video is perfect timing!
Your symptoms are not typical of Omicron, methinks you need to stop telling lies and or making completely unsupported claims. Also keep in mind that you are promoting a medical product that _has_ killed people, did you think that the indemnities that were handed out extend to private individuals or the media? You would be wrong, get some legal advice.
@@nikosu5912 Same, I got it to. It stinks, Hope everyone gets better.
You are preaching to the choir here. The people who need to hear this message are most definitely NOT watching science programming by PBS
No, they are all watching communist sympathizer and world renowned virologist Tucker Carlson.
We're all doomed.
I've not had any jabs and have just had omicron. Felt like a slight cold.
So for me the whole thing paid off nicely 👌 didn't risk taking the Jabs and got a mild case of covid that by most accounts stops you getting the worst one's in yhe future
This is a very powerful statement from Joe. Seeing him stripped of the usual slick, glossy production and jokes, just a sick man staring into a camera, obviously uncomfortable and emotional. It says a lot by showing a personal side. Hopefully he has a full recovery and that we can all get out the other side sooner rather than later.
My Dad caught COVID in March 2020 and end up in an induced coma, on a ventilator. He already had Diverticulitis and Chron's and went into to respiratory failure twice. They didn't think he had any hope of survival but they just constantly pumped him with antibiotic after antibiotic, anti-androgens, vitamins and a cocktail of everything they could think of and he survived but... It's almost 2 years down the line and the long COVID is still very much an issue.
Apparently, that can last for a lot longer than several months. It's messed with his nerves, his heart and other organ functions. His blood circulation is a mess and he has a lot of muscle and joint pain, now, as well as brain fog and headaches, etc... He isn't the same anymore.
He went into hospital with some colour in his hair and beard but came out and his hair colour has just totally gone. It literally seems like COVID sucked a lot of life out of him.
I hope your dad can gain some sense of normality eventually ☹️ I have Crohn's and asthma and I'm prone to bronchial infections. Pre-vaccine it felt guaranteed that I would die if I got Covid. Now that I'm boosted I'm constantly worried about the potential impact and internal damage of long Covid+Crohn's 😨
It appenens the same at my teacher of the elementary school. Now she has muscle problems and she has respiratory problems
I understand.
My late friend and former neighbor had a similar path with Covid. Caught it Jan 2021. In an induced coma & vent for almost 2 months. Pumped full of drugs and steroids to keep him alive.
Had kidney failure and needed a transplant. Got the transplant, but died a few weeks later. This all took 6-7 months...
He was mid 30's with a wife and 4 kids.
I am not a doctor, but what I have understood is that severe covid unleashes a massive, gargantuan inflammation of many tissues everywhere in the body (brain, lungs, etc.). That is bound to wreak some havok and your dad will need time.
hope he makes a complete recovery soon.
I apparently had omicron about a week ago and didn't know until I found out my wife was infected after ending up in the hospital for an unrelated issue. She nor I ever had any symptoms.
Are you both vaccinated?
@@AetherealGirl No
@@jamiepratt9247 same here. omicron is pretty mild but damn it’s infectious
@@jamiepratt9247 You should probably change that if medically possible
yeah lot people are having the same thing here, they go to the hospital for a totaly unrelated issue and test positive without symptoms ,
I contracted Covid in August of 2021. The doctor that told me the news gave me a very low chance of survival. I had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 3 months prior, obese, and unvaccinated. He told me good luck and to possibly get my affairs in order. I went home, opened my bottle of whiskey, and ordered tacos through doordash. I came down with fever, might swears, and an awful cough that seemed to go on for hours. I lost my sense of smell and taste. I didn't die. My symptoms went away after a week except my taste and smell, that took 8 months almost.
So your obesity was actually the problem.
You sir are a walking miracle. Check your health!!!
That was a very irresponsible doctor to say that. Yes, being unvaccinated, obese and diabetic would increase your risk of a severe manifestation of the disease but even then, the chance of death is still low. I don’t know if the doctor was trying to scare you into action but it is ethically wrong for a doctor to outright lie to a patient, whatever the motive.
Get better soon Joe!
My daughter got it from daycare. Hubby was + but no symptoms, my daughter and I got sinus cold symptoms. Took is almost a month before the last mucus symptom went away.
Hubby and I are fully vaccinated, daughter is too young.
Were in Ontario Canada, premier told everyone to just stay home and isolate 5-10days. No reporting.
I was just diagnosed on Sunday for the first time. It feels surreal to have the same sickness that took my big sister in October. My symptoms are cold-like. Hers almost immediately became pneumonia. Why? She was a germaphobe. Always used hand sanitizer. Always cleaned her grocery cart. No illnesses. I rarely use sanitizer. I never clean my cart. I have diabetes, and I'm a smoker. Why did it attack her the way it did? And why not me? 😔
bc exposing yourself to bacteria builds up a better tolarence to them in most cases and builds immunity.
I’m glad you’re doing ok and I’m very sorry for the loss of your sister.
My whole family got Omicron and we were all vaccinated.
I never got a fever and it just felt like I had a bad head cold, while my mom was intubated at the hospital for a week. Just shows how unpredictable this virus is. I am still thankful we were vaxed because my mom survived COVID and was only intubated for a couple of days and I felt better by day 5.
By any chance does your mom have underlying conditions like asthma, heart conditions, or anything else that you don't have?
Underlying causes play the biggest factor
hope your mom gets better
My mom also got it, not so badly like yours but it was realy bad
My mom said she never felt so bad since i was born! Crazy!
You weren't "vaccinated", you were poisoned with an experimental shot with ABSOLUTELY NO GODDAMNED knowledge of its long-term effects.
@@macethorns1168
You have no idea what you're talking about but why not show off more ignorance.
Whats next you'll say 5G is causing cancer meanwhile visible light like blue wavelengths are in the 1000s of gigahertz range and that doesn't harm us 🤔🤔🤔
@@dustinjames1268 Yeah, she has some underlying health conditions and she is in her 50s, which is why she got the vaccine. COVID spread into her lungs giving her COVID pneumonia while for me stayed in my upper respiratory.
The important question, which I have not seen brought up in any coverage of the Omicron variant, is whether or not Omicron provides any specific immunity to other variants of the SARS-CoV2 virus. If so, it might be a good thing. If Omicron can outpace the others and provide a degree of immunity, it might help to isolate the more virulent strains.
Edit: and then you bring up exactly that idea at 14:01. Thanks Joe. :-)
That question was brought up a few weeks ago on an episode of New York Times' The Daily podcast with one of their infections disease reporters. According to him, the data at the time seemed to suggest that a Delta infection didn't provide much protection against Omicron, but an Omicron infection did seem to provide a good deal of immunity to Delta. Of course, it was still very early and there wasn't much data, as is still the case, really. But apparently there is some hope in that regard.
Dr John Campbell (PhD in Nursing) has a fantastic channel. He is a good science communicator who is very up to date on most all recent studies and releases from medical agencies.
He has done a video about the initial studies conducted in South Africa, which are suggesting that immunity towards other variations is strong.
He does a daily talk and also interviews various experts.
Omicron on the surface seems like a good thing. Think like a virus. What does a virus want to do? It wants to replicate. High transmission keeps the virus going. If there is a quick and high death rate with lots of symptoms (think Ebola), then the virus can't spread rapidly as the hosts will simply die too fast to keep the transmission going, and it will flame out. Being highly infectious with milder symptoms is a win for the virus, but it's also a win for us as death rates will continue to drop even as infections continue to go up.
They don’t want you to know that, they love cov
@@citrustaco You're not wrong, and i agree, but a virus is not a living organism, it's more like a pocket of DNA/RNA that the host replicate to make it spread. This is the difference between a bacteria (living one-cell organism) and a virus
I have a 79 year old friend who tested positive this week for Covid and is pretty sick. He has been vaccinated and boosted, but he is also on Prednisone for other health problems, which reduces immunity.. He wore N95 masks whenever he went out EXCEPT when he ate out in restaurants. Two days after he ate at a local small cafe, he became sick with fever, sore throat and severe cough. He is so frustrated that after over 2 years of being very careful, he got the virus. However, you cannot wear a mask when you eat out and that is where a lot of people are picking up the virus. May be better to order in rather than eating out right now. He is on the anti-viral meds and it seems to be helping but it is slow. Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you feel better soon!
I'm recovering from Omicron, day 6. I had not been out since before Christmas, so caught it on my one and only trip out.
Thankfully, I am fully vaccinated because despite feeling really (really, really) bad, the symptoms have not been bad enough to require hospitalisation.
I know, from past experience with flu, that I could have been very seriously ill. I am compromised, because of viral cardiomyopathy, which almost killed me, and has left me at risk from any virus. The vaccinations have probably saved my life.
Get well soon Joe. You look, no insult meant, as bad as I still feel. You have spoken a lot of sense in this video, which is, no doubt, why many will criticise it.
Oh my! I was so glad you included that last bit as I was almost positive there would be multiple comments about how you “got the C-word to make a video”. 🤦🏻♂️
He's faking
@@turtletom8383 Yeah,
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Like Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Hbomberguy, and so many more.
@@slevinchannel7589 our Covid blues clues
@@SarahMc585 yeah man, its not as dangerous as the big pharma makes it look like
@@proloycodes it was, but omicron isn't. Soon it will become like cold, because of the existence of omicron.
43 years old, heavy cannabis user, terrible sleep/eating habbits. Got omicron, not vaccinated at all. Symptoms lasted 18 hours, sore/stiff lower back/chills. Had a hot bath, 2 Advil Muscle and Joint, slept, got up in the morning and went to work, feeling no different than I felt any other morning.
The fact that it's a bit disappointing that we're still in a pandemic while being vaccinated, is not surprising at all. Vaccines still work, but if we keep on traveling everywhere and go up, down, up with how strict we are with rules for e.g. masks, combined with the number of people in total these days... of course it's going to drag on. Hope you get better soon!
Watch this video ( ruclips.net/video/FPPnyzvO7J4/видео.html ) it's a bit complicated but the sums up version is: COVID is a infaction of mucous membrane and not of the blood for example and mucous cells are less good in holding onto antibody's because if they where we all would have food allergies
Anti-Vaccers are the issue... They don't give two shits about the virus, nor do they wear masks.
I do understand why they don't want the Vaccine but when they go all out and be an ass about it, really pisses me off. They've even attacked other people who were vaccinated.
@@SomeGuyWithTwoCats6066 😂😂😂😂
@@SomeGuyWithTwoCats6066 I think you have it backwards lol
@@patrickjack8101 yeah sure man the antivaxxers arent the literal dumbest of all people
My family and I never socially distanced. We never took the jab. We never wore masks. None of us have had Covid. I know this will anger a lot of people. You'd much rather hear that we all got sick and died. Sorry to disappoint you guys.
No of course not! I think we’re all glad you’re fine. It’s just risky, and we hope you continue to stay safe. Just be careful around older/unhealthy people.
I'm vaxxed and boosted but yea same thing. Always treated this as a joke never got COVID. I think I will get it eventually and honestly everyday that goes by without COVID is more surprising
Very well presented! Wish you a speedy recovery!
i had omicron just the other week, and it was the first case of covid i've had. it went by super quickly for me and i feel like i got off extremely easy. there was about two days of buildup- sore throat and sinuses, followed by two days or so of being COMPLETELY incoherent. i couldn't think, and i slept close to 18hrs/day. i never had a fever, but i did have some feverish dreams and all of my joints ached really badly. moving around at all was a struggle. but then it just kind of? went away? i felt better very suddenly with the only leftover evidence being a slight roughness to my throat
Interesting differences and similarities. Had it two weeks ago. Two days of fever, but not sore throat. Day three brought mild sinus issue and a tickle that made me occasionally cough. I went to the doctor to confirm it wasn’t COVID, and then they said I was positive.
Hmmm sounds like flu!
@@notascoobyreally7520 Well to be fair, Covid IS a flu. But not all flu are covid. 😂
@@Xaiff Not it isn’t ^^. Completely different virus families, mechanisms and targets.
@@MetallicReg thank you for fielding that one 😂
No shots no covid for my friends and I.
I just tested positive last night, I feel basically exactly as you describe.
I have it right now. Mild symptoms. Evaded it for two years so eventually it was going to happen 🙂
I wish everyone - vaxxed and unvaxxed - a speedy recovery! ❤️
Get well soon, Joe.
Got infected at the start of the year. The guilt of bringing home the infection to my family is terrible. Just glad Omicron did not bring severe health issues with it.
I had the same flu before COVID hit in 2019 felt like a 3 day hang over but I've had worse sickness and got though it when I was a child . I was tort different and brought up to never giver up you can say all you want .better.to burn out then to fade away! This guy is a goose or sheep
Thank you for making this video, especially when you're clearly feeling so awful. Please be kind to yourself and I hope you recover asap 💜
I feel you, I got it last week. I had muscle aches and soarness; imagine waking up a day after doing a massive work out... that's how it feels. But since I got my first two shots, it wasn't too bad . Get well soon!
I have covid now with the exact same symptoms that you describe. I'm full vaccinated and boosted. it's what brought me here and I would just like to thank you for putting some sensible and intelligent perspective on this entire pandemic situation.
Sorry your sick, but happy your vaccinated. Get well soon. 🙂👍
How are you feeling Stephen? I just tested positive today. Hope we feel better soon!
@@mastersanwan Thanks Elliot, four days on from initial symptoms and testing positive and I'm feeling a bit better. Very glad I had all the shots. Good luck.
My boyfriend and I had it a couple weeks ago - he had fever, shortness of breath and mild allergy symptoms meanwhile allergy symptoms were all I had. I was stuffed up or snotty for a good week or so, and then when that finally went away it took my sense of smell with it. Its just now finally coming back to its full strength. We are both vaccinated but not yet boosted, but we are planning to go get our boosters soon. If you catch this after making it this far...don't beat yourself up. Its all over the place and even the most cautious of us are getting it (I'm in that group). Tylenol, sudafed and all the usual stuff for taking care of a cold/flu will be your best way of getting through it, just take care of yourself the best you can while you're sick.
You have to wait a couple of weeks from recovery in order to be able to get another shot
I got sick for the first time in 14 years but tested negative for COVID, retested and was still negative (and COVID false positives are vastly more common than false negatives in the first place). However, I was also by far the sickest I've ever been, with bad pneumonia for 9 days, and I could barely breathe and completely lost my senses of smell and taste (which scared me that it was COVID at first, but I looked into the timeframe for symptoms emerging and mine was completely wrong for COVID, and I was also having violent sneezing fits for the first 2 days before the infection spread to my bronchial passages and lungs, which are not a COVID symptom).
In fact, from specific details of my symptoms (mucous colour, timeframe and sequence of symptoms, matching to the full symptom list, resistance to antibiotics, etc), I deduced it was a particularly bad... common cold. Kind of ironic, but I've been a lot more careful about making sure I get enough vitamin C since then. Because of the lack of a good grocery store where I was living most of my vitamin C was coming from margaritas, and citrus isn't actually a great source of C to begin with.
Anyway, all that is to point out that COVID-19 is not the only virus that can affect someone with wildly different severities. Probably the point that screwed me over was that my cold was able to quickly migrate to my bronchial tubes where my immune system was weaker in general, which was probably because it entered my body not through microscopic particulate (which is USUALLY stopped by the mucous in your nose), but on a foreign body (somebody came into the café where I worked covered in cat hair, and I am allergic to cats, so for the first day I thought the sneezing was entirely due to exposure to the cat hair; however I'm pretty sure the virus I contracted was on the cat hair, which acted as a vessel to shunt it past my snot and into my throat).
So I guess the real moral of the story is cat people are evil.
@@agustin268 I read 10 days as per CDC guidelines, and that's mainly to make sure you're out of quarantine. It'll still be past a couple weeks by the time we go, we haven't scheduled yet. (Its on the To-Do list though.)
Thank you for mentioning long COVID. It often doesn’t seem to be considered when looking at the risks of the COVID spread but it’s still devastating for people and society
@TheLoneJourney not the side effects. Many people are still suffering symptoms months and even years after their initial covid infection. For some it’s so bad they aren’t able to work anymore. It’s not going to affect everyone but it’s still a relatively large proportion of people who suffer from it
8:47 This is especially important for people to listen to. I just lost a friend of mine, very healthy, in his 20s, vaccinated but not boosted (but planning on getting one), basically a really good example of someone who would be in the higher chance of surviving if they ever got covid. He got it, did everything right in terms of getting treatment, _and died from a heart attack not long after he was confirmed positive._ It doesn't matter if your age group or health makes you in the "98% likely to not die" category. SOMEONE will be the 2%. One out of every 50 healthy people are in that 2%.
I'm so sorry about your friend!! I agree that people definitely need to be more aware of things like this. Everyone just assumes that if you're young and healthy, you'll be safe. But there are young and healthy people who have died from COVID, or become hospitalized and survived. People don't understand that just because something is UNLIKELY to happen doesn't mean it WON'T happen!
Sorry about your loss
It's not 2% it's more like 0.2%, your point still stands though
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Yeah, sorry about that, admittedly I was half-writing that in anger because of how many people were claiming that my friend was somehow secretly sick or died of something else rather than just admitting he got covid and died from that.
@@purplegill10 There seems to be a pattern of healthy people who got the jab having heart problems. The truth will come out eventually.
Wonderful video. Had to rewatch it to keep my spirits up!
Well, I am in the same case than you.
Vaccinated, double boosted, with Omicron which catched me.
I will never know how I would have turned without the vaccine, but I only endure the equivalent of a big cold, or a small flu.
I hope you will recover as fast as me.
I'm guessing I had omicron, I lost my symptoms in 2 - 3 days and only had a fever and headache, I haven't been vaccinated or boosted so thank God I happened to be lucky
@@1polarity Nope. Your case is statistically the norm. Omicron is weak, and isnt causing the same level of people to be hospitalized as Delta or Alpha.
I had the same as you described and I’m not vaccinated
@@1polarity same
I can offer one piece of advice to help with one symptom, the brain fog. Taking Vitamin B helped lessen that part of it, though didn’t have too many other symptoms except loss of taste/smell and getting tired very easily. Hope all goes well for ya Joe and anyone else dealing with it.
Why does vitamin B work?
You sir are a denier. Only vax will save you..
(If it didn't sorry, but it's your fault)
@@thomasdeininger1605 nope I am fine never had Covid. But you still can not tell me why it works.
i got omicron too, started with a slight tickle in my throat for a couple days, then sore , then super fatigued and headache where i couldn’t go to work and got tested. sore throat got pretty bad for a couple days, headache also lasted until day 6…7.. day 8 had intense sweat spells..would come and go until day 10 .. 11-15 not much left minor cough here and there
My night sweats were for 2 nights. Super intense
I had night sweats for the first couple days, and then a bugging cough & runny nose for a few days after. By day 7 I was negative and clear but it took just over 2 weeks to get my full sense of smell and full sense of taste back.
Hi r7blue! Thanks for sharing your symptoms. I'm not sure I had omicron but the testing people only said I had the virus. I lost 80% (about) of my muscle strength and fell. If you have time I made my post yesterday and it's 5-15-22. Do you know anyone who had the virus and lost muscle strength for 2 days. It was my whole body too, and bladder control, very strange.
Same! The dry dry throat that didn’t even make me think it was anything until the next day. Even then… it was tolerable…. Just when I thought I was out of the woods for symptoms.. day three, major sinus congestion and coughing started.
@@JaneDoe-rj4jn I used slippery elm vitamins and bromelin vitamins to make the cough go away. It def took a couple weeks ugh
The questions I have are how can you determine which variant you have? Also why aren’t we given that information when we get tested and receive a positive test?
For the week ending Jan 15th, the CDC estimated that in the USA, 99.5% of cases are Omicron. Obviously there is no certainty, but considering that was barely over 1 month after the first case of Omicron in the USA, it's safe to say that it's probably even higher now. 1 month from 0% to 99.5% in most states means it is absolutely dominant.
@MattTechStudio They are looking for specific variants. That's irrelevant for just tracking purposes and it also takes longer and costs more. A few samples are tested for variants to determine the current %'s of each variant but that is not correlated back to the person.
Hello people. I'm having this too. Started by a little headache on saturday, sneezing on sunday, sore throat and runny nose on monday, and tested positive on wednesday and been coughing till now. I had a fever on wednesday night but the fever's gone in the morning. I feel better now but I'm still coughing now and then. I hope I'll get better next week... and wishing you guys who are having omicron to get well soon too !
Tested positive yesterday myself! First time having COVID and first time being sick since December 2019. So far I’m just a little phlegmy and have a lump in my throat. I hope it doesn’t get worse! I’m also vaccinated.
I've got omicron too. I'm always taked all precautions and I'm vaccinated. In I'm week to respiratory diseases, I'm had to get to emergency on a Wheelchair, but still get sent home afterwards and of course, my entire family got it too. I've had some pretty bad symptoms as well.
Not gonna lie, throw my social life away and basically lost friendships and all that by isolating during all this time[ I meant since early 2020, and despite that still getting Covid]], and I'm pretty upset about still get it, but life is a b****, and I know how vaccines work (I'm always getting respiratory disease after all, even if always vaccinated.
If you lost "friends" because of that, are you sure they were really your friends? Because it doesn't sound like it.
How have you lost friendships over isolating from Omicron, for presumably, a few weeks at most?
I think Marcos meant long term isolation and staying home since the start of Covid , and is upset that he still got Omicron.
@@sandyshore8787 Yes, you're right. Apologies for the confusion, I'm isolating myself since the beginning. And yes, I can't help but feel upset about getting covid, it's doesn't seem fair, but as a person who always get reinfected with respiratory diseases I understand that's how it works.
@@Nilguiri Well I meant Isolating in the long term, but you're not wrong... I'm just upset upon the realization that most of us "who did the right thing" are now just alone and sick, relationships aren't eternal and these things happens all the time, may we all find better companies from now on.
Thank You for making this video. If thinking individuals like yourself can get this crap then the rest of us don't really have a chance of avoiding it. The best we can hope for is to limit the 'landslide impact' on our health care system from wiping out the limited hospital space we normally have.
'Individuals like yourself'
He ain't a superhuman you fool. Go out and catch it, let your body fight it off and go and live your life.
@@unclem7816 You’re trying for a Darwin Award huh? Good luck with that.
Sitting here watching because it's all I can manage because I also have covid and everything you described.... I feel ya, man. And I have 3 of the conditions that make me higher risk and got new my vaccine earlier... yeah... Hope you're feeling better soon!
Stay strong Donna!
I'm 2 weeks out from catching omicron. I masked, triple vaxxed, stay at home unless I have to leave and I still got it when I went grocery shopping (and clearly saw people not masking) I'M SO MAD!!! I went 2 YEARS not catching this thing! Goes to show how contagious it is! Thanks again for being so relatable.
I‘m super late to reply to you but since I’m also at home now with stupid omicron I watched the video and read your comment now. We did what we could! I’m super bummed too, but honestly: we didn’t get the first strand, we didn’t get deadly delta and now we simply almost had nowhere else to go and ended up with omicron from the supermarket. If I had to pick a strand up until this point, I’d pick omicron. Yay us!
y'all watch to much tv
@@tehabnorm How so? I got proven right when I caught covid just trying to go out to buy groceries (PCR test to prove it and still coughing 3 months later) how about showing some empathy instead?
@@jocelynmontoya1029 pcr is not a diagnostic test.
@@tehabnorm Even if I didn't name the correct test from a hospital (never claimed to be a doctor) it's splitting hairs to concentrate on that.
I told my friend that I feel like I'm "circling the drain" as far as this virus goes. I've been ridiculously careful. Probably more so than most given my line of work (medically intensive homecare RN). But, I'm starting to feel like getting this isn't an "if" but a "when."
be more scared
If your vaccinated, when you catch Covid, there's reason to believe you will be protected from sever disease. We may face several more years of rescuing illness, but it will be just another bad cold. 👍
@@Beefsupreme63 No, don't be scared. 99.9% of the time, you will be fine, unless you have pre-existing conditions.
Seriously. Why fear it? You’ll have actual immunity when it’s over, and very few people die from it. It probably is inevitable. We botched this thing up so badly, it’s endemic. The people that wanted to place all bets on a vaccine should reflect. We used an experimental medicine to make the first ever vaccine of its kind, and tried to employ it against a virus. When did we ever vaccinate a virus into submission before? Remind me again? The flu? No, that’s not it. That turned out the same way as Covid. Smallpox? Well, actually, we have no way to know if vaccination was the reason that virus is one of only two considered eradicated. Even considering it eradicated is somewhat controversial. But there’s no way to quantify that as a vaccine success.
And how many viruses have been eliminated from mRNA vaccines? None. In fact, nothing ever has been. If this virus were truly important to people, they’d be asking the right questions.
Don't be scared. I survived with no V and so did my mum who is 82. I won't say it's that mild mild, my mum had a hard time but still did not go to hospital. It felt like flu or similar to heat stroke to me ( except I was not dizzy, no bad chest symptoms nor heart palpitations for me). No long covid that I see for me. I think I feel better now than before. Not sure what that's about, like my immune system reset. My sleep cycle and energy was bad 2 weeks before I came down with this and I had lapsed in taking all my vitamins till omicron hit me two weeks prior. I do feel once I started taking them again it gave me some protection. Black seed oil, NAC, Vit D3 with K2, zinc, vit C, magnesium. I'm greatful omicron was the first and only strain I got up to now and I feel good now, took about 14 days to be completely symptom free especially from slight mild cough near the end, no cough now. I'm 48 , have sleep issues, newly diagnosed mild hashimotos. Happy to be alive as so many were not so lucky. Just look after your health and keep your mental state up. A lot of the struggle is to not be fearful. I did not try to get rid of my fever all that time. Only took Panadol for start of day, if I needed to get up to do things and before sleep ( lasted 3 nights) as fever, if not too high, is your bodies antibodies doing it's work to fight the virus.
Take care ! This video must have been difficult to shoot but you managed, you have our respect.
Proof that we can live through this ! :)
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, and Stay Strong because you really make me & everyone laugh during this tough times. I really loving and liking this man because how he explains this and that thing without hesitations.
Yeah,
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Like Sci Show, Sci Man Dan, Joe Scott, Hbomberguy, and so many more.
Nature has a way of balancing herself, and she honestly does what she pleases. We can pretend as if we can control everything, but in the end it’s a false sense of security.
Hope you're keeping well mate! Just coming out of isolation today after fighting it for a week, I was lucky to escape with pretty mild symptoms. This Omicron surge is weird, especially as an Aussie where cases had been relatively stable until it arrived a few weeks back.
Same here in Puerto Rico. Comparing to the US states we had very little infections and deaths. Omicron changed everything. Most of the deaths here happened in the last few weeks.
It surpassed the 2020 and 2021 deaths combined.
Crazy.
@@PRDreams nuts hey! Same here, in the span of a week we had more cases than 2020 and 2021 combined
Haha I'm glad to see I'm not the only one using the term "Covid Classic" to describe the original strain. In any event, I hope you get better soon, Joe. Take care of yourself.
Thank you so much for sharing. It has been 3 days since i got a severe sore throat - to the point i could not swallow, and with me that came on came on within 1 hour. Looking back i did have the runs twice on Friday morning. Fevers and chills yesterday and today. Like you, i am triple vaxed, and like you, I'm wondering what the heck? I'd hate to imagine how much worse my symptoms would be if i wasn't. I'm healthy, fit, and 50 years of age. i rarely get sick. I actually cant remember the last time - And yet here i am. I came across your video not looking for a cure, but looking for some hope. i need to know that my body will be done with in a few more days. I also wanted to hear from somebody who was infected currently, not 2 years ago. Thanks again.
I have it now and it’s debilitating sore throat. It appears this one is affecting the throat a lot more.
I started having symptoms on Tuesday. It’s Saturday and I am just starting to feel a little better. Not 100%. My dr told me it could take 7-10 days to recover. My medication has been Sudafed, prednisone, Afrin and cough syrup. Seems to be alleviating the symptoms.
It was 12 days ago that I posted my original post ..... And I am now posting again but this time from a hospital bed. Turns out I have a bacterial virus that may or may not have started out as a viral bacteria. It attached to my tonsils and then my jugular. My neck swelled up double on one side. I'm on antibiotics etc. ... I wasted 4 days in isolation at home assuming and treating it as if it was the new strian of COVID. ... I've come to realise the hardway how blindsided we've all become to other diseases since COVID was introduced to us. Had I gone to the hospital at the beginning I would have been written off as COVID and sent home to isolate.
@@FMcanada The issue in your throat now is unrelated to COVID? Or COVID just made it worse?
Hope you recover well.
@@lindac7968 I never tested positive for covid either from home or hospital tests. The doctors do not think it was covid related, but from my understanding, they still didn't rule out that it may have started as a viral infection. I initially thought it was the new strain of covid and self isolated for 5 days, all the while this bacterial virus was growing on my tonsils and then went to my jugular vein in my throat, where my body created a blood clot to try containing the virus. The bacteria entered my blood stream, and is still in my blood while i am on antibiotics etc, ... the long and short of it is I was diagnosed with something called Lemierre's Syndrome, a very old and rare disease. I say old because it was historically first documented by Dr. Lemierre in the 1930s before penicillin, where 18 of 20 patients died within 2 weeks, and rare because these days from stats i found, 1/million get it annually. Its often referred to as the 'forgotten disease' but lately has been on the rise. One doctor that was treating me said in his thirty year career he has only come across 2 cases and i was the 2nd, oddly enough the other was only 3 months ago. From my understanding it doesn't just have to start from any fluid/food etc contracted threw your mouth, it can start from bacteria in a cut anywhere on your body. It gets into your blood stream and travels. Your body creates blood clot around the bacteria and it swells up - anywhere in your body. It can go into your liver, heart, lungs, and brain, which then have a whole slew of other complications and obviously a higher chance of mortality. The doctors caught it in time before it did any of that type of damage to me, and it is now under control. I was released from the hospital after 10 days, and am just starting my IV outpatient program tonight, with a few pills and antibiotics etc for next 6 weeks. I'm one of the lucky ones. I've been hearing stories of people who have had to be medically put in to a coma to drain there skulls, lungs collapsing because of fluid build up etc. Its a disease that is often over looked initially as strep throat, or tonsillitis, until its not, and then theee is a very short window to striatal it under control before it become fatal. Very little public knowledge about it, as i guess many other diseases. Unfortunately it seems Covid has taken the spot light lately and so much else is overlooked.
Hope you feel better soon! I got Covid earlier this month, luckily I only had a headache, a bit of the sniffles and was really tired for a few days. I slept 17 hours one day lol It sucked being sick, but I'm glad I'm double vaccinated so my immune system could deal with the virus better.
I didnt get the vax. But I did get covid and by the 2nd day of anguish and not able to sleep. I cried out to my Father in heaven. He put a song in my heart so I played it on my cell and fell asleep instantly woke up with no more pain. The remaining 8 days of isolation I just chilled read bible and spent time with my Heavenly Father😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌☝️☝️☝️❤
Cancer patient on chemo. Day ten of covid. Basically a mild cold and almost gone. My 76 year old mom, who has asthma, is two weeks in and getting better the last two days. Omicron may be highly contagious, but not as deadly.
Thank you so much for making this vid. I'm vaxxed, boosted and haven't hugged or seen the lower part of my face for 2 years. So, it pissed me off and I was so confused when I got it last week. Lucky for me it was like a 24 HR flu then back to full. Problem is I've been symptom free for 2 weeks and I'm still testing positive. FML. Well feel better soon
Just leave isolation you are fine. The tests can show positive for THREE MONTHS because they are detecting left over viral RNA. Oh and BTW stop hiding in your house and masking, clearly it didn't work so why continue it?
The exact same thing happened to me. I am double vaccinated with a booster. My wife and I took a cruise to the Caribbean in March and the protocols for boarding were very strict. Not only did you have to show proof of vaccinations, but you were required to have proof of a negative PCR test within 48 hours of boarding. I got COVID anyway, probably when we took an excursion in one of the ports of call.
Poor NPC
Same. I caught mine in Spain on the very last day, probably. One day after flying back after we had to submit the required PCR test. Mine came back positive. I had no symptoms, maybe a very slight tickly throat for half a day, otherwise I never felt better. My hubby never caught this highly contagious virus from me.
You probably caught it because everybody on that ship had just gone to where all the Covid positive people go: the testing center. It’s a brilliant policy. I just got back from a cruise with the same requirements and have Covid now.
Lol, if you took multiple injections and still caught the disease, you were never “vaccinated.” I have the measles vaccination - know what I didn’t get? Measles. I also have the polio vaccine. Know what I didn’t get? Polio. Those are REAL vaccines.
@@alexbrocklebank8821 Measles and Polio do not mutate in the same way as SARS-Cov-2. People who are vaccinated against Measles and or Polio etc. will usually have life long immunity. Why do you think the flu vaccine is offered yearly but a measles vaccine is only given in two doses and Polio in four along with other vaccines in childhood. Have a think about what you just wrote 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Don't trust everyone
I am currently lying down sick in bed and hope I get better 😞 my sister caught the disease from work and then got sick which led to my family getting sick. Even though we’ve been vaccinated we still got pretty sick. I feel like crap and I’ve never been sick like this before. My bladder and kidney hurts. My entire body aches especially my lower back. It first starter with waking up with a dry throat and mouth for a couple days and then eventually developed a horrible headache which felt like a migraine with aura and eventually a cough. I’ve never felt so sick in my life and it feels worse than a cold or flu.
Absolutely brilliant and thank you. I must say though that "endemic" doesn't really say at what level the infection operates at. If covid becomes endemic but is as common as regular influenza then it will still be quite impactful. Unfortunately the jury is still out as to whether covid subsides and turns into an occasional nuisance, or whether there is still another, more pathogenic wave to come. We don't know.
One thing we do need more public education on is the significance of R(effective) and what it means for our ongoing behaviour and public health response. Yes, covid might become an occasional and sporadic thing, but that means bring R(eff) need to remain under 1.0 consistently and that probably will mean doing more than vaccinations. We need to educate people more on how to recognise a well ventilated space and we need to educate the people who are responsible for large indoor spaces on the need to engineer ventilation and air purification. I think we also need to accept, at least until we come up with even more potent tools, like anti-viral prophylaxis, that high quality masks will have to be worn indoors.
And yes, there's still the possibility that technology will give us the edge and we can eradicate it entirely. Its not the technology that limits us, its collective behaviour.
Why is it that when people talk about collective behavior they never mention getting your vitamin D level checked or checking your waist / hip ratio or knowing your A1C?
Everyone wants government to protect them or to police the behaviors of others.
Great comment.
All the unvaccinated that I know had mild symptoms such as fatigue and headache for a few days. Average Covid age of deaths in Australia = 83.7 according to the bureau of statistics. Each person has to do their own risk assessment and vitamin D status appears to be very important in this evaluation.
Can confirm. I have 20 unvaccinated friends including myself. All doing perfectly fine, the ones that have got it, couple days headache, sore throat then back to normal
I'm not vaxxed buy hubby his and he was way sicker. This is our second go around we also had the og stain and same thing hubby was way sicker and that was before a vax came out.
I was unvaccinated and had a stuffy nose for two days but my son was forced to get vaccinated to keep his job and he still hasn't gotten better since getting covid 5 weeks ago. he has a constant cough. tell me again how the vaccination is beneficial besides exposing you to side effects.
@Be Intelligent My reasoning is very rational and can be backed up by truth and fact unlike the government lies and fallacies that sheep like yourself choose to believe, eg if you get vaccinated you cant get covid or transmit it or die.
i also had it, 7 days of mild symtoms and some headeach ... unvaxxed
I have it right now I’m in so much pain, my head has so much pressure in it I can’t even stand up ☹️ I keep vomiting and can’t eat much at all.
I had the vaccines and the booster, I couldn’t imagine this being any worse.
Feel better
@@drg2094 thanks 👍🏻
Here I am almost a week without any symptons, WITH two vaccine doses, still with a positive antigen test. It's scary to think that if I went out of isolation I could still be spreading this disease.
Isolating at this point is stupid. For every one person like you who tested with no symptoms there are probably 5-10 walking around unknowingly spreading it. We aren't putting Pandora back in her box, this virus is now endemic like influenza and did you quarantine for that? No
Yeah, about same. Had a little sore throat for a couple of days, some coughing... that's about it. Maybe had a fever, didn't last more than an afternoon if I did.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv wait for everyone to be vaccinated, then we probably stop with it. If we quarantine for every new strain the world will live under lockdown forever, it is known, mate.
Scary to come to the realization that a vaxxed person is more dangerous to an unvaxxed person simply because an unvaxxed will typically keep using precautions to protect against virus where a vaxxed person has been lead to believe that they are safe, protected from the 🦠 when indeed they aren’t. They can have it and not know it and share it with others. The gift nobody wants. Yes, it is scary and it isn’t going anywhere it is here to stay.
Oh dear, I’m sorry, I hope it past quickly.
I have been clear of Covid for 2 years since the pandemic but I just came into contact with someone who has Covid. I'm vaccinated and boosted but I caught Covid , haven't tested yet, it hasn't been 5 days. But I have a light cough and and achy body. I've been so so tired, just slept through the first 3 days of infection. I'm 21 years old and have just been staying in and masked up. It just feels like a regular cold.
I caught COVID in August ... Has 3 jabs done etc. Been completely knocked off my feet. Had approx 14 symptoms. Now into long COVID. Pushing it to the limits to try to get better, been on Whey protein powder to possibly help boost me up. I am very tired, short of breath, muscles weakness and my leg muscles hurt. To say it sucks is an understatement, it sucks the life out of you. I had a mild case, no need for oxygen or organs shutting down.
drink lemon juice with lime and ginger and honey, put the whole fruit cut up,, leave peels on but i peel the ginger root ,,,into boiled water and seal jar ,,steep, you can drink hot but its stronger after a couple of days. eat pickled beets. ginseng tea.
We finally caught Covid in April. I started to have symptoms on Good Friday. My friend/accountant and his girlfriend came over to deliver completed tax returns that were due on the next Monday, April 17. All I had was a minor sore throat. Neither of them got it. My son came over on Easter Sunday. I tested myself and my husband that Tuesday. I was positive, he wasn't. He'd been coughing, which usually means he's sick. I had no fever, stuffy nose, a few coughs, nothing major. If he wasn't coughing, I might not have tested us. I've had colds that were a lot worse. Same with him. He and my son didn't show positive until 2 days later. It seemed to have a 4 day incubation time, which meant I got exposed at my choir practice on the Tuesday before Good Friday. Apparently, once I had noticeable symptoms (still very mild) I was pretty infectious. That was definitely by Easter Sunday. My son was positive 4 days later. You have to definitely show symptoms for the home test to show positive. My husband and I both got monoclonal antibody treatment. We had all been vaccinated and boosted. The shots kept us from getting severely ill. We were wise to take them. Omicron is very contagious. Social distancing, etc. Not enough. Our daughter and her husband got it around the same time from going to a gaming convention. They were vaccinated too. It was definitely making the rounds here in NE. Please get vaccinated. I don't want to think about what might have happened to us if we hadn't.
You let your guard down! Happens to a lot of people.
I am 55 years old unvaxed in Australia, we all knew that everyone was going to get it . I got Omicron five days of the cold / flu, two days of feeling average the rest was easy, my husband was triple vaxed and he had same symptoms and duration as me.
And this proves… what, exactly?
I use the home test kit and it was positive . Test two times and my whole family is positive . my symptoms start off with headache and sore throat and then fever come and go and chills . I only did it for one day . Later the at night I took two Tylenol and everything went away. Except for my coughing is still there. All my kids have fever for a couples day. The scary part is that my son nose bleed and cough out alittle bit of blood. My mother in law was positive a couples day before . So I boil lemon grass and ginger . Boil and drink that every day. Get your vitamin c also and no process food . I am not vaccinated.my mother in law was vaccinated and and boosted but she was in bed for few days.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this honest, intelligent, informative video. Shared to social media! Your discussion was scientific, accurate, informative, and wonderfully personal.
Ive gotten three shots and I got omicron 4 months after my last booster and its been trippy. Not hospitalized but I am worried it will get worse. Right now my throat hurts like hell, im spitting up flem and I got chills and ive been tired. It sucks. I cant imagine how hard it would have been if I wasnt vaccinated
how are you now
Find and read the Pfizer data and see what it says. Hope you feel better
Get well soon!
Hi,
I took a car ride to go to a graduation last Sunday, on Tuesday called in sick. The driver also got sick Tues morning. He lives in another town. Symptoms for me 102f fever,. Really bad bronchial cough,. Fatigue, joint aches. Surprised at the possibility of a 2 day incubation period. Fever lower today, Thursday.
I am 77 years old. Got covid 3 weeks ago. A little sick overnight. Then fine again.
Why do so many people commenting on this video know which strain they contacted? Is there a test that tells you which strain you have?
Imagine not realizing two years ago that nothing is going to stop you from getting covid.
I got covid and it barely effected me, only bad symptom was a headache for 1 night, and just feeling off for a week. Boom and I was fine
Exactly the same here, I woke up with an annoying head ache, a bit of body ache, slight tiredness, not bad enough to stay in bed. That was the first day. Today is day 3 and I feel fine. My partner has also covid. He's sick as a dog, in bed sweating, coughing, shivering, runny nose etc...He's vaccinated, I am not. I'm looking after him. Enough said.
Day 4 of covid
Not doing well. Fever went up to 103F. Can't stop coughing. Everything hurts. I'm isolated. Can't sleep. Just lay in bed awake.
Had a scratchy throat, then that night I woke up 2am like a train hit me or something. Aches, pains, headache, sore throat, palpitations. Went back to sleep and was fine in the morning, just tired and sore throat. Did multiple saliva tests all false negatives. So I thought I was ok, going places. Tried the nose test, all positive... All I have now is a sore throat and cough on day 3.
I hope Joe is doing better. Sick or not, he’s still adorable!
I prefer to let my body fight things naturally.. like it has for thousands of years from generation to generation.. I hardly take advil or anything because I think it is good for the body to endure things from time to time.. Like wind blowing on trees and plants making their roots stronger, making them more durable in the future.. If you look at isolated tribes.. for thousands of years they have been segregated from society and the diversity of bacteria that has been normalized into our systems if introduced into their communities now, would have devastating effects. I like the wind, leave me alone.
Unfortunately, a strong majority of jabbed do not benefit from wild infection, as they are unable to develop n antibodies.
It's been 7 days for me with Covid 19. I had 6 jabs (vaccinations) and after being in the ER yesterday, lm on 5 medications to help with the ugly symptoms. Definitely the medicine helped at least 85%.
Have you ever considered it is the "vaccine" that is making you sick?
When I got Covid-19 I was extremely sick. I had to take time off,from work.
I’d like to see a study on whether long COVID produces a more robust immune response. I got long COVID last march, never got vaccinated, but haven’t caught it again. Friends who got COVID at the same time, had it for short term, then got vaxxed, have all had at least 1 more case of it. I’ve been around them while they had symptomatic omicron and never got it mysef
That’s an interesting theory
I have omicron right now. Taste and smell is muted. No fever. Just a slight dry cough. Also on antibiotics for something completely different.
Oh by the way, I’m proud to say that I skipped the shot and hardly ever got a symptom except a night of soar throat and nausea for a couple of days from « beta2h3! » (whatever)! Now I’m immune with a stronger system….that makes me confident to face future viruses….just wanted people to be informed
Take care and get well soon. You still manage to make us laugh in the middle of your tough times.
*cough times.
Sorry.
what tough time?
I was thinking the same. How revealing of his character it is that he's still willing to go to the effort of making videos for us fans, ultimately for the sake of spreading knowledge, which I personally respect the hell out of anyone who spreads knowledge. So long as it's scientifically accurate knowledge and not astrology or something. So for him to still to pursue his obvious passion for learning and teaching despite how crumby he probably feels shows some real dedication. Not just to us, but to science as well. What more can I say? The man's a legend. Even though I already have, here's wishing him a fast and uneventful recovery!
why didn’t i get people saying this to me when i got omicron…
@@soragranda haha
Life finds a way. To make Joe sick.
Life, uh, finds a way
@@atomicboyheroi Thank you. The lack of an "uh" was disturbing.
@@mgm3649 it gave me legit OCD
@SANSAR SAH , the guy, uh, in this video
Nature allways finds a way 😎 where are the jurrasic park buffs
My fiancee had a vicious sore throat. I ended up in the ER with blue fingers, struggling to breathe. Same exact strain, 1 week apart. You can't assume you'll know how it'll affect your body ahead of time.
Be well!
Be well
Same strain? How can you be sure? Was genetic sequencing done? With Omicron it would likely have been 2 or 3 days, not a week.
Are you vaccinated?
i doubt it was Omnicorn
I’m unvaccinated. My covid lasted for two days with mild fever.
I’m unvaccinated but still stressed about covid my problem is I’m scared of the vaccine but I’m scared of covid as well I’m really hoping my experience will be like yours. Wish me luck!
I got it too. Unfortunately I passed it to my brother (66yrs old and ill) before I even knew I had it.
Thankfully we both did fine but.....Damn!
congrats, I got a lil sick a few times but I take antivirals.
lemongrass and agarikon
Recover soon man! Rest as much as you need!
@Flower
reporting you!
Hey get well soon! I’m from Cape Town, South Africa, and when it hit my neighbourhood it was like wildfire, it swept through me, and a good majority of my extended family got it. Good news though, everyone recovered, including my 91 yr gramps! I’m sure you’ll beat it soon :D
Ps. That goes out to you if you’re dealing with it now, get well soon, get lots of rest and binge a show!
Thanks for saying this, it gives us hope
oh my god JC a new viral strain
Before Omicron 95% of the UK population had antibodies. Now 97.5% have antibodies. That means that only 2.5% had no protection whatsoever.
Omicron is only less severe in that 95% of the population. What about the 2.5% who had no protection? I bet that in them, Omicron is significantly more severe than Delta. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see the hospitalization numbers that we’re seeing.
I had covid at the start of the month. Everything Joe's going through is familiar, but I'm most concerned by the "Covid brain," which Joe described as the inability to focus on anything for more than 2.7 seconds. I've found that the difficulty concentrating has lingered for a couple weeks even after the rest of my symptoms have cleared. It's annoying, and a little worrying. It's definitely made me a little less productive.
Don't worry focus will come ba-- OH LOOK A SQUIRREL!!
Welcome to the world of ADHD. Be glad it's on the mild side
It will go away but it can last half a year
@@FrVitoBe source?
@@Rin-qj7zt and this is one of the things that worries me the most about Covid- wife and I already have foggy brains from ADHD, don't need it to be made worst.
I used to brag that I never caught the flu or a cold. Then I got Covid. Because my body had never experienced being ill it went into a high level of inflammation. This made me so much more ill than I ever could have expected. Essentially my doctor told me that because I was 'so' healthy that is why I got so sick. I was so sure that I could breeze through this illness and I've never been more wrong. I am vaccinated.
People give this "being healthy" thing too much credit
Sounds like the Spanish Flu
An virtual infection once in a while isn't so bad. Do you get annual vaccinations?
@@MrNicoJac No
@Spellbinder same! Smh same here! 🤦🏽♀️
Welcome to the club Joe. Me and my mom had covid during the holidays and let me tell you when they say that it's different for everyone they mean it. While I was dealing with a mild case of the dang vrius while my mom had a somewhat a servier case and got the aintbiocts injections. I am just greatfull that it didn't ruin the holidays. Oh btw the dog wouldn't leave us out of her sight, well mostly my mom.
My cat acted the same way with my mom and now he won't leave my brother.
Your dog sounds absolutely precious!
Can animals get affected by the virus? Asking for my cat.
@@NukeRadius
Some apparently can, yes.
I haven't heard whether it's more or less severe for them, though
@@walterl322 Yes, Yes she is. She loves being around others and caring for others. Plus thanks
Just as I was watching your video my rapid test showed positive and I started panicking a little, cuz I also have been vaccinated 3 times and was like you "disappointed" after 2 whole years. But your words were like a real-time therapy session, you helped me get grounded. Thanks so much for all your great videos always!
Before Omicron 95% of the UK population had antibodies. Now 97.5% have antibodies. That means that only 2.5% had no protection whatsoever.
Omicron is only less severe in that 95% of the population. What about the 2.5% who had no protection? I bet that in them, Omicron is significantly more severe than Delta. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see the hospitalization numbers that we’re seeing.
omicron is just really contagious in comparison to delta, so it makes sense. don't worry too much about it, the fact that you got it now instead of 2 yrs ago means you did a good job. speedy recovery!
I got it a week and a half ago. Wasn’t a big deal for me. Just fever, tiredness and fatigue. No nausea, no sore throat or headache/brain fog. Lasted two days.
Idek if I have covid I just have symptoms like sore throat and uhhhhh a sore throat and congestion. I don't know if it's covid or not though.
Fully waxxed and fully brain wa$h'd.
Rip
Ngmi 😴
Thank You. Hope you are strong and healthy. You've helped me so much. I tested positive last Sunday, June 5, 2022. Everything you've said I've had the exact same thing. I thought I was invincible. Everyone around me was falling to omicron. I, however remained strong and virus free. Then I was hit. The might oak has fallen! I'm still testing positive. And still have that cold type feeling in my head. Hoping to test negative tomorrow.
I’m in the same boat as you, I hope we’re both negative this weekend
You got this!
I work as a healthcare professional. I had two co-workers that were tested positive for covid and were out for at least four days until they were RTW (day 5). Stay optimistic. You got this.
@Blaze Blaze Vaxxed to the max!
This is one of the best videos on the topic I've seen. You have a fair and balance view and approach to the topic, and it really feels like a video that would help people who are against vaccination understand and maybe even come around to changing their minds. Hope you feel better soon!
I just got it too. Good luck in recovery, man
I discovered this channel when I was ten years old and fell in love with science because of it. And I've always looked to this channel to inspire me to work to get smarter. And now I have gotten omicron and That's really comforting to know. Science always has our back
profitable science*
@@Niekomojo For the benefit of mankind. If you don't like science or technology, go live in the woods.
I can't believe a person so smart as him can make this video saying "You don't know how your body will react to the covid-19 infection" and using that argument to encourage vaccination. Reality check: you don't know how your body will react to the vaccine, and if you pull the short straw and end up with those rare, but life-debilitating side effects, then congrats. In omicron period, the risk-benefit analysis changed. Vaccine side-effects are to risky for the lesser to none protection against omicron variants. If you are in a high risk group maybe it makes sense, but if you are a normal healthy individual, you gotta think about it in the present time. Be smart folks.
As a 19 y/o unvaccinated guy who has got covid twice, one recently (which might be omicron), I can tell that the new variant is way weaker than the previous one. However it caused a severe headache and a fever of 101, it only lasted one day and one night. But when I was infected earlier the fever was more severe and it lasted for 3 to 4 days.
P. S. I'm unvaccinated because in my country, there aren't enough vaccines but now it is slowly being adequate. I really envy people of developed countries who get the vaccines earliest and also the one which is most effective. And I wonder why some privileged people still refuse to be vaccinated.
Edit: I got the vaccine.
It might have been less severe because you had partial immunity thanks to the first infection. It really is impossible to draw conclusions from just one case.
Take care, and I do hope everyone gets access to vaccination quickly. That was one of the blunders when the vaccine became available - not spreading it fairly. And it came back to bite us with Omicron...
Well there's defenintely a lot of controversial information out there. I think for most people that's a big reason why they aren't getting vaccinated (They just don't know who to trust). Also there is ton of stories about very nasty side-effects. Now I don't want to discourage anyone from getting the vaccine, just trying to give a little insight on why some people chose not to be vaccinated.
I am however sorry to hear that you are unable to get a vaccine while you do want one❤️
@@nerenax2132 The negative side effects are usually because the needle hasn't been aspirated to make sure they are only injecting into the muscle and not directly into a blood vessel. They've also been exaggerated by those with an agenda, when in reality, there's far more risk in getting the disease than the vaccination, so it's about probabilities. Anti-vaxxers are idiots, because we've been using vaccinations since Dr. Edward Jenner discovered this medical practice 200 years ago. Vaccinations have saved millions of people from a plethora of diseases. So get vaxxed!
I can't understand why people wouldn't trust a doctor over some doubts spreaded in onlineforums and get vaccinated either. But i would give up my booster in a heartbeat if i'd know that it would be used to vaccinate others who need it more around the world. I am not certain, therefore i'll still get it to at least lower the numbers around here, but i think this is a huge injustice we need to tackle together in the future, so that we will all be better off for future pandemics, especially as we will only get better at that together.
I am quite certain what Pelikan said about partial immunity will have affected your less symptomatic infection this time as B- and T-Cell-immunity is less affected by changes on the spikeprotein, but probably also the variant is less symptomatic.
For now i'd like to thank you that you shared your experiance with omikron and your position on the vaccinationdebate. I hope there'll be more vaccines available asap.
And on a side note: read _Immune_ by Philipp Dettmer. It's the best book ever, whether you've studied biochemistry and immunology at university level, or are "only" interested in science in general. I cannot recommend this book enough.
The fact that you made this while sick with the same thing I have is absolutely mind-blowing.
Get another B00ster!
I'm selling boosters second hand.