How long does it take to get sick on omicron? The time has been reduced to three days, tests do not have to be chased

It certainly may not seem like the pandemic chaos we have experienced, but the original form of SARS-CoV-2 has been slowed down a bit.

Much more difficult to control

After infiltrating our bodies, the virus usually prepares about five or six days until they show symptoms. Estimates for the gap between human exposure to the virus and symptoms, called the incubation period, are approximately five days for the alpha and four days for the delta. It is now said that the latest omikron variant could have reduced it to 3.

If this number is true, this is probably bad news. These shortened times are thought to play a major role in the spread of coronavirus variants.

Most likely, the shorter the incubation period, the faster someone becomes contagious, and the faster the outbreak spreads.

“The shortened incubation time makes the virus much, much, much more difficult to control,” reported for The Atlantic portal Jennifer Nuzzo, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

This variant already seems to be this way. In less than a month, Omikron has hit dozens of countries and sent the number of cases to record highs.

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