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Does the Omicron variant send "no one" to intensive care?

2022-01-12T18:40:14.982Z


THE VERIFICATION - This is what the doctor Martin Blachier said, affirming that the Delta and Omicron variants "do not cause the same disease".


THE QUESTION.

"

This variant does not take anyone into intensive care

," said Martin Blachier, a public health doctor on the

LCI

platform on Monday . "

Omicron remains in the upper spheres and does not descend into the lungs

," continued the media doctor. Since the appearance of the Omicron variant, and the fear of a more deadly wave because of its greater contagiousness, several clues have shown that this mutation of the initial strain of Covid-19 was undoubtedly less dangerous. In spite of everything, scientists keep reminding us that hindsight and solid epidemiological data are imperative in order to be able to have a fairer and more precise idea of ​​this decrease in the severity of the disease.

To read also "I no longer have a social relationship": the distress of the immunocompromised, under the threat of Omicron despite the vaccine

"

Between a variant which sends you to intensive care and a variant which makes you stay two or three days in the hospital, at worst with a little oxygen, these are two variants which do not cause the same disease

", s' is exclaimed Martin Blachier, specifying that if the Omicron variant…

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Source: lefigaro

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