{"id":341881,"date":"2021-11-29T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=341881"},"modified":"2021-12-31T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:30:02","slug":"south-african-doctor-who-discovered-omicron-describes-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/south-african-doctor-who-discovered-omicron-describes-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"South African doctor who discovered Omicron describes symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u201cProfessor Barry Schoub: So far, the cases have been pretty mild,\u201d But the media do not report that in order to keep everybody in fear&#8230; <!--more--><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>People infected with the new Omicron strain of Covid-19 present \u201cunusual symptoms\u201d that are somewhat different from those associated with the Delta variant, a South African doctor who was one of the first to spot it has said.<\/p>\n<p>Covid patients infected with the new strain started appearing around November 18, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, told the BBC on Sunday. The first such patient, a man in his 30s, told her he was \u201cextremely tired\u201d for several days, and also referenced body aches and \u201ca bit of headache,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The patient did not exhibit symptoms typically associated with Delta or any previous Covid-19 strain like a cough or loss of taste or smell, and had a \u201cscratchy throat\u201d rather than a sore one, the doctor added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/541685-south-africa-doctors-omicron-symptoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10160077083649345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 \u201cProfessor Barry Schoub: So far, the cases have been pretty mild,\u201d But the media do not report that in order to keep everybody in fear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":341883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}