Clinical Case Reports (May 2022)

Can the Omicron variant of COVID‐19 cause pneumonia in young patients without risk factors?

  • Noriaki Ito,
  • Yoshihiro Kitahara,
  • Kei Miwata,
  • Mafumi Okimoto,
  • Toshiro Takafuta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5684
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract The Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has rapidly spread worldwide since December 2021. In daily medical practice, pneumonia does not often appear as a complication of the Omicron variant. We present a case of COVID‐19 pneumonia by the Omicron variant in young patients without obvious risk factors.

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