Not every Omicron case feels mild, warn some B.C. residents who have tested positive for COVID-19
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When Darrin Rigo, 31, and his partner tested positive for COVID-19 in late December, they assumed because they were double vaccinated and likely caught the Omicron variant, their symptoms would ease within a few days.
But while Rigo's partner continued to improve around day seven, Rigo's condition deteriorated swiftly, and he continues to experience lingering symptoms 14 days later.
"I regressed pretty hard ... I began having really intense sinus headaches and really bad sinus pressure, to the point that I really felt like my head was going to explode. I was tired and my brain felt like sludge," he said, speaking from his home in Prince George.
"With the duration and the lasting effects too, I would be pressed to call this a mild illness. I do have this anxiety about everyone kind of getting it over the next month or so and I do think we're going to feel the effects of that."
The highly transmissible Omicron variant has been described by public health as near-impossible to avoid but far milder