Recently, with the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control measures in many places across the country, the public's concerns about the Omickron mutant strain have reached its peak again. Some people are anxious, while others are no longer afraid of the viru

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2025-09-14

Recently, with the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control measures in many places across the country, the public's concern about Omickron mutant has reached its peak again.

Some people are anxious, while others are no longer afraid of the virus. However, some problems still echo in their minds: How pathogenic is the mutant Omickron ? How serious are the infection symptoms of ordinary people? How should it be treated? Will there be sequelae after recovery? Is there still a situation of discrimination against recovered people?

In fact, many infectious disease experts have responded to these questions. Scientific evidence shows that the current prevalent Omickron variant strain causes severe illness and death significantly lower than the previous primitive strain. This is not only due to the low toxicity and strong transmission of the Omickron variant, but also related to factors such as the improvement of the vaccination level of the population and timely intervention.

December 2, Wang Xinyu, professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Hangshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, also emphasized again in an interview with Pengpai News reporter that with the epidemic and mutation of the new coronavirus, the rate of vaccination of vaccine , the proportion of severe cases and mortality rates after the new coronavirus infection continue to decline. The pathogenicity of the Omickron variant strain has decreased significantly compared with the previous epidemic strain, and the vast majority of infected people are asymptomatic or mild patients.

Recently, a reporter from The Paper talked to several Shanghai citizens who had been infected with the new coronavirus in 2022 and had turned negative for nucleic acid. Among them are elderly people over 90 years old, girls only 6 and a half years old, and patients with AIDS ; some of them are healing at home and have experienced the twists and turns of "turning to the dark". Although each person's physical changes were different after the infection, many respondents mentioned the psychological pressure and ideological burden at that time. However, with their physical recovery, their lives have returned to normal and no sequelae have occurred at present.

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Considering individual differences, the symptoms and conditions of these respondents cannot represent everyone, but they can still provide reference as real samples.

"We don't have the symptoms of new crown , that is, the mental burden was very heavy at that time."

Narrator: Zhang Shihe, 79 years old, retired employee

shorthand, my wife and I have been infected with the new crown virus to turn negative nucleic acid. From the epidemic period in the first half of the year to the present, we have been asymptomatic, have never taken medicine, and we don't feel anything, and our body is the same as before. I don't know how

was infected. Looking back, it may be the eve of the lockdown on Puxi on March 31, when I went to a vegetable market in , Huangpu to buy wonton wrappers. I was in contact with it at that time. After the lockdown on April 1, we tested the antigens every day, and on April 2, my wife and I found out "two bars".

How could it be "two thugs". To be honest, I was very nervous in my mind and didn't understand why I got this disease and was very scared. But at that time, there were no symptoms, no cough, no fever, no pain in the whole body, no discomfort, but the burden of thought was heavy.

Then after nucleic acid confirms that is positive for , the neighborhood committee notified us to wait to go to square cabin hospital . On April 6, I received a call and asked us to organize our things and prepare to go to the square cabin. The car arrived at about 11 o'clock in the evening. There were about a dozen people sitting in this van, and we arrived at a temporary hospital in Huangpu District at around 12 o'clock. Because there were many people collecting and transporting that day, we parked at the door and waited for a long time.

While waiting to enter the cabin, I had something wrong.

The car is very boring, and the doors and windows are closed. I began to get irritable and panic, and gradually felt dizzy, nausea, and abdominal discomfort. I wanted to go to the toilet, but the driver got out of the car and I couldn't get out. I couldn't hold it anymore. I saw a crack in the car window and reached out to greet the driver in the distance and asked them to get out of the car and go to the toilet. The driver came over to find out the situation and opened the door and asked me to get out of the car. At that time, I had fecal incontinence .

After entering the temporary hospital, my wife helped me complete the registration procedures. I was still uncomfortable. I went to the toilet several times that night and found that the excrement was brown, obviously bloody stool . This made me even more nervous. Although I was very tired, I couldn't sleep, so I just stayed until dawn.

June, 79-year-old Zhang Shihe handwritten a thank-you letter to the doctor at Shuguang Hospital, thanking the doctor for helping him transfer to the hospital in a timely manner in the temporary hospital. Except for the notes, the pictures in this article are provided by the respondents

0 In the early morning of April 7, I saw many people wearing protective clothing in the aisle, and the protective clothing said Shuguang Hospital. I held a doctor and wanted to ask him to take a look for it for me. After hearing my statement about my condition, the doctor said he would transfer to the hospital for treatment immediately. There were no treatment conditions in the temporary cabin, so he contacted me for transportation.

On April 7, I was transferred to Luwan Central Hospital and received emergency treatment in the hospital fever clinic . The doctor found that I had bleeding from my digestive tract, and then I hung saline and took medicine, and the treatment lasted for four days and four nights. At that time, I was still very nervous and worried that I would be over. When I was most uneasy, I even left a last word to my children far away. But after four days, my gastrointestinal bleeding eased and I quickly recovered.

On April 11, I was transferred back to the temporary hospital. The staff arranged my wife and I to take care of each other. At that time, we had nucleic acids every day. On April 19, our nucleic acid turned negative. On April 25 and 26, my wife and I went out of the cabin and went home respectively.

Many people have asked how we treat it. My wife is 74 years old and I am 79 years old. She and I both received the new crown vaccine in 2021. She got two shots and I got three shots. The entire process of infection with the virus, from the time we found that nucleic acid was positive to the time we turned negative, we had no common symptoms such as colds, coughs, fevers, and pain, and we had never taken cold medicine. I had a treatment for gastrointestinal bleeding. My wife had never taken any medicine and stayed in the temporary hospital for nearly three weeks.

As for my gastrointestinal bleeding, the doctor said it has nothing to do with getting infected with the new coronavirus. I suspect that it may be caused by my high mental tension. At that time, I always thought about why I was so unlucky and got infected with this disease, and I was very anxious.

Since I left the cabin, my wife and I have been doing nucleic acid according to the community's requirements in daily life. We have never re-positive and have always been negative. Now in the period of normalized management, we do nucleic acid every two or three days. Life is very peaceful, I usually buy groceries and do activities in the community. Everyone is very friendly, we have never encountered discrimination, and there are no sequelae in our bodies, exactly the same as before.

Faced with the new coronavirus, I may not be as nervous as I was at the beginning, but my wife and I are still very careful. Wear a mask when going out and do nucleic acid on time, hoping not to have the same situation as before.

"I heal myself at home, there are really no sequelae. You make me think about it even if I can't remember it."

Narrator: Ms. Wang, 25 years old, lives in a community in Pudong New District

Our community is an old public housing, and almost every building is infected. I'm not sure how I got infected.

April 8th afternoon, I started to feel uncomfortable, felt a headache and sore throat, and I had a fever at night at 37.8℃. I realized that I might have been infected with the new coronavirus because of my waist soreness. I usually have colds and I don’t feel soreness. That time I felt like rheumatism on a rainy day. I have bad physical strength, , chest tightness, , and I will get panting when I climb the 4th floor, but I am not so weak that I can't walk, but I just can't lift myself up.

At that time, it was inconvenient to buy medicine. I ate whatever I had at home. even Hua Qingwen and antiviral oral liquid, and put antipyretic patches on it. I never burned above 40℃.

Ms. Wang, who healed at home, recorded changes in physical symptoms and medication on her mobile phone every day after she was infected.

April 10, I was diagnosed. Although the body temperature was dropping in those days, the throat hurts even more like a knife slit. I have had tonsillitis before, and this time it hurts a lot.It lasted approximately until April 15, with the main sore throat. Later, the throat was healed, and the symptoms of back pain and other physical symptoms were gone. The body was no different from before the infection.

But my nucleic acid results are a bit repetitive. Because I suffered from other diseases and lived alone, I fought for home isolation from the neighborhood committee. Every three or four days, someone comes to the door to nucleic acid. The first test was positive several times, it was negative on April 18, it was positive on the 20th, it was negative on the 22nd, and it was negative on the 28th. This was considered to be officially turned negative. My resistance is not particularly good and has been hovering around the critical value.

During my home quarantine, my appetite did not change much, just eating normally. I usually slept for a long time, get up at noon and have a meal at night, and most of the time I lie on the bed, cover the quilt tightly, turn on the air conditioner, and don’t walk much. The whole person has a poor spirit.

I consulted a doctor at that time and he said it would be best to buy cephalosporin, but I couldn’t buy it. There are only Lianhua Qingwen and antiviral oral liquid at home. After taking Lianhua Qingwen for a few days, he stopped eating three antiviral oral liquid a day. He continued to eat after the symptoms were gone. After all, no symptoms did not mean that it was completely cured. Later, I didn't eat it anymore and found that it was expired. I drank the expired antiviral oral liquid. I feel that taking medicine has no effect, it is more like psychological comfort. There is also a lot of water, and you have to drink seven or eight glasses of water in one morning.

In fact, the body is not that uncomfortable, but the psychological pressure is very high. I see a lot of online information and am anxious and can't sleep at three or four o'clock in the evening. There are also elderly people in our community who have been diagnosed with the disease, but they will turn negative in a few days. Maybe they have no psychological burden and will get better quickly.

Thank you for an enthusiastic neighbor upstairs. I didn’t know you before, and it was added to the WeChat group of the community during the epidemic. During my stay at home, he kept helping me keep the supplies sent by the neighborhood committee and the house I bought myself at the door. In fact, I didn’t reveal the infection to other neighbors, and I didn’t dare to talk to the group. The neighbor who helped me get the supplies was just wondering why I didn’t go to the cabin, but did not show disgust or worry.

After recovering, my life was not affected much. Seasonal viral colds, tonsillitis, and later there will be some, nothing else. In the past few months, my oral ulcers have grown more, but they are quite metaphysical. Oral ulcers are related to many factors such as stress and diet. I also do strenuous exercise, and my cardiopulmonary function has no effect, which is similar to before I was infected with the new coronavirus, and there is no obvious change in my breathing.

When I just returned to work, I had to do nucleic acid alone, and there was no such requirement after two weeks.

In the early stage of diagnosis, I told my colleagues in Shanghai that they were surprised. By the end of April, everyone heard that they had no emotional ups and downs and got used to it. But when talking about this to outsiders, they will look at you with a look of facing a great enemy, or in an exaggerated tone, and it feels like I just came out of ICU.

Some time ago, a former colleague in Beijing called me to ask me if there are any sequelae after I got the new crown. I said no, but he seemed to be disbelief and was very scared, so he continued to ask, "I really have no sequelae. If you make me think about it desperately, I can't remember it."

In fact, after I got sick, I paid special attention to whether anyone would discriminate against me, but there was no such thing as a result. I work in an Internet company and told others that I have been infected with the new crown, but their reactions are nothing special, and everyone is mainly curious. I also asked HR if he would ask "Have you ever been positive?" when recruiting people, he said he would not ask at all.

I have received two shots of the vaccine, but I am still infected. I may have to rely on immunity when I get sick. Through this incident, I feel too weak. Because it was very good at that time, the neighborhood committee told me that the old lady in her 70s was all over the place and I hadn't turned a blind eye yet.

I usually have irregular daily routines and don’t like to eat fruits, vegetables, or milk. Most young people live a poor life, and I feel that young people may also be susceptible to them.

In the first few months, I would do exercise and go to the gym once a week. enhances immunity and . Exercise can also make you feel better.But it has also stopped in the past month, and now it doesn’t feel like it’s okay if you don’t exercise. This is a disease. Even if I get it again, if I don’t take it to the cabin, I’m not afraid. Maybe for me, preventing viruses is not because of physiological problems, but because of fear of being taken away and isolated.

"I have no physical impact, but my daughter is still in school for single-person and single-tube sampling, which is a bit special."

Narrator: Ms. Tang, 31-year-old (her 6-and-a-half-year-old daughter and 68-year-old mother were also infected with the new coronavirus)

moved into the New Guobo parent-child temporary cabin on April 12, and ended the temporary cabin trip on April 18. Although half a year has passed, I still feel deeply remembered when recalling this part.

4 months ago, at our house, my 6 and a half-year-old daughter Tangtang had pneumonia before, so I did not let her get vaccinated. My 68-year-old mother and I received two and three vaccinations respectively.

At the beginning of April, my mother was the first to be diagnosed with the new coronavirus. In the middle of the night on April 4, my daughter and I entered the quarantine hotel as close contacts. The next morning, I touched my daughter's forehead and felt hot as soon as I measured my body temperature. After a while, she started crying and saying that her body hurt. I immediately contacted the medical team of the quarantine hotel and asked 120 to go to Tongren Hospital. My daughter was later tested positive for nucleic acid.

Children are actually more intuitive and will cry when they are uncomfortable. At that time, their daughter cried for a day, which means that the first day was indeed in pain. The next day, she stopped crying. I asked her to drink more water and sleep more. She slept in a daze for a long time.

Actually, I started to get hot as soon as my daughter had a high fever. From my own intuitive physical feeling, it is still a little more uncomfortable to get infected with the new coronavirus than a normal fever, mainly because of fever, body pain, and then cough.

Fever and body pain arrive almost at the same time, mainly concentrated in the first two or three days of "yang". That kind of pain is the feeling of weakness all over the body, and the bones and muscles are hurt. But after two days, basically the pain disappeared. Then I coughed, and for about a week, I would have phlegm, but the frequency of coughing is not very high and not severe. I wouldn’t take it seriously if I coughed occasionally later.

But according to my mother, she didn't feel any pain in her body after she got infected. It has been half a year now, and the three of us have nothing wrong with our health. I have never caught a cold until now, and they are all quite healthy.

In life, after we got home, there was nothing else that was particularly inconvenient. The neighbors in the building don’t talk to us about these experiences after infection, maybe they still feel that they are a bit privacy and sensitive. My colleagues would come to ask me how I feel after the infection? I also told them that there is nothing in fact, and I don’t think there is anything to be taboo psychologically.

My daughter and I don’t discuss the matter at that time, but this matter did not have any impact on her at all. In September this year, my daughter went to the first grade of elementary school. Before entering the school, we reported truthfully whether she had been infected with the new coronavirus, so my daughter was still a single person and a single person. I think this is a bit special, but when I asked her, she didn't think anything was there.

There is another good influence, that is, the daughter formed a friendship with a "big white" brother.

html In April, in the temporary hospital, "Dabai" just played with Ms. Tangtang, 6 and a half years old daughter, which made the child's life in the temporary hospital more colorful.

April When I was in the parent-child cabin, there was a brother named "Dabai" who had been playing with my daughter in the cabin. He also distributed snacks to her and would also put plastic bags on the trailer to take her around, adding a lot of color to my daughter's life in the cabin. When I was in the cabin, I didn’t add him on WeChat because I was worried about disturbing his work or something. As soon as my daughter returned home, she missed her brother very much. Later I found him through a WeChat group.

At that time, I thought he was a medical staff member from Guangdong to Shanghai. Later I found out that he was a volunteer and was still in Shanghai. So after Shanghai gradually restored normal production and living order, I told my brother just now on WeChat, thank you for what he did for us in the temporary cabin and wanted to invite him to dinner. On July 3, we met our brother Gang who took off his "Dabai" suit for the first time, as we wished, and he was very handsome, haha.

Just that day, my brother brought his girlfriend over, and his girlfriend also learned about the story between us. They brought a lot of gifts and fruits. When my daughter first met her brother, she was quite shy, but she soon became familiar with each other, and her elders and older were running and jumping in the mall. Recently, my brother went to another place again. A few days ago, he contacted me on WeChat and said he wanted to send us local specialties. He was really too enthusiastic.

"Our immunity is relatively lower, but I stayed in the cabin for a day and turned dark."

Narrator: Xiao Cao, 32 years old, an AIDS-infected person

5 years ago, due to an accident, I was infected with HIV without knowing it. Through drug treatment, my condition has been controlled, and the HIV virus vector cannot even be detected in my body.

At the time of the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, I had some concerns at first. For AIDS patients, their immunity is lower than that of the general population and their physical resistance is weaker.

I was infected with the new coronavirus in April this year, and it happened to be during the lockdown of the epidemic in Shanghai. I was blocked at home. There were many positive cases in the community at that time. The community screened nucleic acid to further control the large-scale occurrence of the epidemic.

I have no way of knowing how I got infected with the new coronavirus. At first, I realized that my voice was hoarse, so I immediately did antigen at home. It was two light sluts at that time, and I was a little panicked inside, so I called the neighborhood committee.

waited for about 2 days, and Dabai came to me to test nucleic acid. Soon after, he received a call informing me that the nucleic acid test was abnormal, and my nucleic acid record was also displayed until he was taken to the temporary hospital.

on the first day of moving into the temporary cabin, my nucleic acid record still showed: testing. I was very scared at first and consulted Dabai when registering, but Dabai clearly replied: There is nothing to worry about, you are just a mild patient.

These words dispelled many of my concerns. The next day, I did nucleic acid test in the square cabin, and the result showed negative. After that, it remained negative for three consecutive days. This made me less worried about my life in the cabin.

square cabin bath room is separate, which makes me very pleased that the public toilet is not particularly clean, but it is still within the tolerable range. On the first day I entered the cabin, I received a lot of daily necessities, including eye masks, earplugs, washbasins, toothbrushes and toothpaste.

square cabin will distribute lunch boxes and medicines on time every day. I have received Chinese medicine packages and I have drunk them for 2 consecutive days, and I have no symptoms. During this period, I have never had symptoms such as fever or cough, but it was just an itchy throat.

After I remained negative for nucleic acid for three consecutive days, I finished the isolation treatment on the fifth day and left the temporary cabin. After that, I started to be quarantined at home, and I felt more at ease these days, without any symptoms and had a good appetite.

2 months after I left the cabin, I went to the hospital for an imaging examination to confirm whether the new coronavirus affected my lungs. At that time, I accidentally read the news report about the sequelae of the new coronavirus, but the examination results were all normal.

During the entire process of infection with the new crown, I had not encountered any discrimination in society. At that time, there were other positive cases in the building where I lived. I was afraid of being blamed for being infected because of me, but no one blamed me.

I did not re-positivity after leaving the cabin, so I had no psychological burden at all. I want to tell you that this virus is not scary at all, and you must believe in yourself.

I am very glad that this experience of being infected with the new crown did not cause me to be discriminated against in employment, and also helped me develop fitness habits.

Recently, with the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control measures in many places across the country, the public's concern about Omickron mutant has reached its peak again.