OMICRON: Although the infection of the new variant of the corona, Omicron, is increasing rapidly, scientific studies have confirmed that the risk of infection in the lungs is very low. Researchers from the University of Washington have claimed that the infection of Omicron remains more in the throat and its chances of reaching the lungs are limited.
Even if the virus reaches there, it cannot spread to the lung cells. Actually, after infection, the virus replicates rapidly, causing damage to the infected organ. In Delta infection, the virus was rapidly replicating by reaching the lungs.
According to research published in the journal Nature, University of Washington researchers infected mice in the laboratory with Omicron and other corona variants. The presence of the virus in the lungs of mice infected with Omicron was negligible compared to the other variants. It was also observed that there was no change in the weight of the mice infected with Omicron whereas the weight of the mice infected with the other variant started falling rapidly. This happened because his lungs started getting infected due to which his disease started taking a frightening form. Michael Diamond, the head of the research, said that the disease in Omicron-infected mice was found to be ten times milder than in mice infected with other variants. The main reason for this is not to spread the infection to the lungs.
According to Melanie Ott, a specialist in San Francisco's Gladstone Institute of Virology, several studies confirm that Omicron infection does not reach the lungs either and that even if the virus does reach there, it cannot cause any harm. Because the virus cannot multiply in the lungs. This is news of relief. Due to, oxygen dependence in infection, the magnitude of the disease will be relatively less.
Not harming the lower respiratory tract
The report also mentions the research of Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge University. They have also concluded that the virus is not infecting the lower respiratory tract (lungs) but that the upper respiratory tract (throat) is rapidly infected and is rapidly replicating. The way the peak was announced in South Africa on 30 December within about a month and a half and the deaths were limited, it was less dangerous in Britain.
