COVID-19: WHY IS IT TAKING LONGER TO RECOVER FROM OMICRON?

A positive LFT result

We've discussed the possibility of more troublesome variants of Covid cropping up.  We must be prepared for the worst.

This week my doctor pal told me "... we don't have a single ventilated omicron patient on ICU in my hospital right now.".  Yet Covid cases are rising again, and people I know are still going down with it, despite being fully jabbed.  The comedian Al Murray, for example.  Milder disease, but causing disruption to schedules and workplaces.

There's then the problem that people are taking longer to recover.  I had a negative LFT for Omicron at Christmas only two days after showing positive.  Now it's typically 6-10 days, such as for Professor Alice Robert still positive on day 7.

SO WHAT'S GOING ON?

We know that Omicron B.1 has morphed into B1.1 and B.2.  There is also the new 'DeltaCron' combination of Delta with the more transmissible spike protein from Omicron, now confirmed as being in the UK.

The Government dropped formal restrictions too early.  The vulnerable still need to be protected, so formal isolation should continue, for example. Masks should still be worn in shops and other public places where the vulnerable need to be. 

WHY THE LONGER RECOVERY?

What exactly is causing this longer recovery?  Which variant or variants?  We need to know.  

We also need to know that the country is prepared for a variant that is worse.  Is it?  Sadly that's a QTWTAIN.