do you know anyone with omnicron?

[MrsLargeEmbodied]

out of interest?

Omicron not omni

I don't know the person personally iyswim, but there's a confirmed case in the sixth form at our y11 son's school. Relevant students and staff are isolating in accordance with the new guidelines. It's caused chaos in terms of having to switch to immediate virtual learning for a number of subject classes.

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Yes I live in South Africa in Gauteng and know lots of people with COVID so pretty sure quite a few will have Omicron.
Most have it very mild, like a mild cold, bit of a headache and that’s it.
My 13 year old tested positive yesterday, he’s not vaccinated he had very swollen glands, tired (due to lack of oxygen said the drs) sore throat but he’s up and about.
No one else in the household has any symptoms, my husband has a mild cough, we are both double vaxxed with Pfizer, my youngest is not vaxxed and is not showing any symptoms at all.

I contacted everyone my son had close contact with in the free days before he tested positive and none are doing any symptoms although most of them had Delta in our third wave.
Whatever they say - the vaccines and previous immunity are definitely keeping this mild.

Yes.

Triple vaccinated and previous covid positive. Not unwell although lost sense of taste and smell

Yes at school - two classes sent home yesterday to isolate until negative PCRs

I really hope the stories of it being milder than delta hold up as the numbers grow.
Dh currently poorly with delta (we assume) and really not looking forward to part 2 in the new year.

Nope. Not any other strain of Covid at the moment. In fact, I work in a busy nightclub and since we reopened the only member of staff to catch Covid was the unvaccinated one.

Yes. Apparently it's still suspected omicron despite them sending a special kit 2 weeks ago to detect it (results haven't come back yet).

We've had calls from people based in track and trace and well as a London based coronavirus response cell and everyone has been tested but we are still being told it's suspected.

Mild symptoms. Runny nose, slight cough that stopped within 2 days, bunged up stuffy feeling and no loss of smell or taste at all.

Yes, a work colleague. Very mild, headache and slight cough.

Nope, not a soul

@MsNorris

Yes I live in South Africa in Gauteng and know lots of people with COVID so pretty sure quite a few will have Omicron. Most have it very mild, like a mild cold, bit of a headache and that’s it. My 13 year old tested positive yesterday, he’s not vaccinated he had very swollen glands, tired (due to lack of oxygen said the drs) sore throat but he’s up and about. No one else in the household has any symptoms, my husband has a mild cough, we are both double vaxxed with Pfizer, my youngest is not vaxxed and is not showing any symptoms at all.

@MsNorris Are any of those people elderly?

Out of interest how do you find out it is omnicron? Does this info come after the positive test and how are people informed?

Yes my sister has it and her child is being tested now too. We are central Scotland. She'd triple vaxxed 🙄 Parents are having to isolate now as they had contact with her.

For her it's just been a very bad cold.

@Lucked You'll get a a positive result and then they send it for further testing so can take another couple of days for it to be confirmed.

I am positive just now and I’ve been trying to find out if it’s Omicron or not. I keep getting the same answer….. ‘oh we don’t know’

Yes me (possibly, the PCR came back saying possibly Omicron)

Vaccinated twice. Feeling pretty rough but ok. Weird symptoms such a night sweats, sneezing loads, sponges teeth, dulled sense of smell and taste but still there and a feeling of disorientation.

This is how I’m assuming it’s Omicron. Once I registered the PCR on the NHS app I had this:

The omicrom (no "n") has an s gene dropout which can be seen on some PCRs (I think it depends on the lab), so they have a pretty good idea that if it has an s gene dropout it is omicrom. This was how alpha was originally spotted but there's virtually none of that now - before omicrom came along there were very few sample (I think Whitty said 0.1%?) but that percetage is rising. I'm assuming suspected cases will be sequenced to check, and a certain percentage of other samples are sequenced too.

@Boosterquery no I don’t know any elderly people, all people from work so mainly 30s and 40s.
We have low vax rates and we don’t have boosters here so a lot will be unvaccinated though

@dropitlikeitsloth

This is how I’m assuming it’s Omicron. Once I registered the PCR on the NHS app I had this:

I had no idea we were to register pcrs on the nhs app. I don’t think that message suggests you have omicron just says it’s possible as only 20% of cases are sequenced. None of the literature regarding self isolation makes it clear that most people are actually exempt.

I had no idea we were to register pcrs on the nhs app.

@Frazzled2207 Nor did I. I literally got pestered by text (3 texts in an hour) asking me to do it.

I could be wrong about it being the MHS App. All I know is I clicked a link went to an NHS site and logged it. Might have been track and trace. I can’t actually think straight at the moment ☺️

The omicrom (no "n")

Isn’t it Omicron? It’s Omicron in Greek.

Yes. I had it confirmed.

Plus 17 other members of staff at school and 10 children (that we know of).