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NextHealth officials expect vaccine effectiveness to be comparable to that of the original omicron, and it's likely most people in the US from COVID-19 vaccines, booster shots or prior infection with the virus.
With other COVID-19 variants, younger people have generally had milder symptoms. S-gene dropout or target failure has been proposed as a shorthand way of differentiating Omicron from Delta. Among mostly vaccinated people infected , cough and runny nose showed up in more than three-quarters of the 81 cases.
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