People affected by Covid-19 have more risk of developing a thrombus. This is one of the complications that patients with this disease can suffer, sometimes causing serious problems or even death. But in the current moment of the pandemic something has changed. Does it have something to do with the appearance of the Omicron variant?
Experts acknowledge that in this sixth wave that our country is going through there are two facts that make the thrombi in people with coronavirus are affected differently. On the one hand, there would be the less seriousness among the infections of the new variant, and on the other, that this wave has come in a period in which the Spanish population already has high percentage of vaccination.
These circumstances have led to less chance of suffering a thrombus, since this disease is related to the degree of severity of Covid-19. “The greater the severity, the greater the probability of thrombosis”, tells us Juan Carlos Reverter, president of the Spanish Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (SETH)
From the SETH they also notice differences between those who pass the disease without symptoms. “The asymptomatic people have an increased risk of developing thrombosis that could be estimated at 5%, while in who have moderate symptoms that figure grows a little more, until it exceeds 20% when it comes to people who pass the infection in a serious way, ”reverter details.
They are still a threat
However, the doctor warns that these cases “they continue to be a threat to our health” and despite the decrease in serious cases, we must not lower our guard. Omicron it spreads rapidly, and therefore the number of thrombosis that occur in our country continues to increase.
And they recommend being attentive to the appearance of symptoms of possible thrombosis to require health care and the importance of continuing to advance with vaccination. “Since the decrease in the severity of the coronavirus due to the doses is allowing the case of thrombosis to decrease.”
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